Shock and awe, and no subtlety. The old stories didn’t spell everything out in gruesomely graphic detail, and the imagining that the reader had to do to fill in the rest was in some ways the scariest part of all. I’m not being original when I mention that the most horrifying things to each of us come from within ourselves. Those old writers knew that.
Those old writers certainly did.
Nice chatting. Be safe.
T