Posted on 11/10/2017 7:23:03 PM PST by simpson96
Yeah, right “horror”. I used to buy, back in the late 70s early 80s, Horror anthologies to read when I didn’t particularly care to think. Was in a book store last year when I came across one of the same collections of all new stories, 28th edition. Wow 28 years. I thought I recalled buying year 1. Let me grab one for the bedside table. ALL of the stories in the new book were SJW PC bullshit. The haunts were abused wives, slaves, discarded poor people. Every story was basically a Chinese Gov’t Evil Landlord story. So much for “Horror”...
The left sure ruins everything it touches, doesn’t it?
I read The Lottery in high school and remembered feeling it was hokey. I was annoyed that my class had to discuss it as serious literature. We also read more serious stories like The Fall of the House of Usher and the poem The Raven, which at least qualify as high literature. As for Poe, I have great esteem for The Black Cat, another of his tales which is now being widely read in high schools.
I was talking about the re-make...I’m off looking for the 1963 version right now!
Poe was something else, too. I don’t like dark, scary stories. Part of it might have to do with my Grave’s Disease-I’m tense and anxious most of he time so it doesn’t take much to ratchet it up.
I have also never like stories in which there is no one able to stop the evil or at least bring justice; worse if the PTB are complicit (The Lottery). The Cask of Amontillado freaked me out.
When I was a kid I read The Haunting of Hill House. Scared the crap out of me. Like most written stories, they’re scarier than the movies.
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