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020 _a9780198755562
082 _a809.9164 JON
100 _aJones, Darryl
245 _aHorror: A Very Short Introduction
260 _bOxford University Press
_aOxford
_c2021
300 _a143
520 _aFour o'clock in the morning, and the lights are on and still there's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, games, and other forms of entertainment designed to do exactly that.
650 _aLiterary criticism
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