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A review by etienne02
Be Scared of Everything: Horror Essays by Peter Counter
4.0
That book was good! I wasn't convince at the beginning, lot of personal memories into it and pop culture references, but as we go deeper into it some essays were awesome, a bit like a short stories collection, some were better than others, but the overall quality was really good.
We get deep thinking on horror and we also have good thinking and reflexion on society, human condition, and all that philosophical aspect was very interesting. We also received a good bunch of name dropping, from movies, to books and video games, which I knew most of them already, but I'm a huge horror fans for over two decades now, but new comers will surely discover and note a lot of them to then explore and made new discovery from a genre they love.
So it have various layers (Layer of Fear... video game, had to name drop it) to this book and it made it interesting for various reasons and reach a solid level of accomplishment on all of them. Surprisingly good!
We get deep thinking on horror and we also have good thinking and reflexion on society, human condition, and all that philosophical aspect was very interesting. We also received a good bunch of name dropping, from movies, to books and video games, which I knew most of them already, but I'm a huge horror fans for over two decades now, but new comers will surely discover and note a lot of them to then explore and made new discovery from a genre they love.
So it have various layers (Layer of Fear... video game, had to name drop it) to this book and it made it interesting for various reasons and reach a solid level of accomplishment on all of them. Surprisingly good!