The Horror! The Horror!
Rereading, reading, writing, and more on the scourge of AI: feat. James Herbert, Walter Benjamin, Guy N Smith, J M Synge and more
Horror was big, when I was small. As I crested my tweens in the mid-1980s, the things-that-go-squelch-in-the-night section of the bookstore was big business. James Herbert’s gore-spattered trilogy The Rats, Lair and Domain – about a breed of man-eating mutant rats — was absolutely essential reading for my contemporaries and me. Each one was more grotesq…
