When times are dark, do people want more fictional horror, or less?
It probably won’t come as much of a surprise, but Stephen King thinks the answer is more. And in the clip above from The Late Show, he tells Stephen Colbert why during a conversation about the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think people do kind of gravitate towards horror stories when times are tough, and times are scary — and that’s certainly true now — because when you go to a horror story like If It Bleeds, or Gerald’s Game, or any of the stuff I’ve written […] you read it, and the situations are even more horrible than being under house arrest with no toilet paper,” explains King. Read more…
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Source : Stephen King explains why reading horror is so cathartic during a pandemic
