Supernatural Prerequisites
After finishing Supernatural Horror in Literature something became quite apparent to me: horror tales work because of a belief in the supernatural. It seems to me ghost stories, haunted houses, and things that go bump in the night carry no particular attraction to one who rejects anything supernatural. It seems to me a prospective horror writer (who wants to make money at it) would be well served to pay attention to the philosophy of the day. Modernism and rationalism don’t seem much compatible with ghouls and goblins.