Trite Horror Icons
I will say nothing new here, nevertheless I will say it. Our standard pantheon of horror monster figures have become too familiar to be frightening. Vampires are all too prevalent, zombies abound everywhere (they even march around in broad daylight now). Wolfmen (lycanthropes to get all “technical”) aren’t all that common, but still common enough they don’t cause much fright. Whether or not these monsters ever actually caused real fright is beside the point; they no longer are efficacious.
Am I tired of them? By no means, but that doesn’t mean I won’t grow tired of them. I think, perhaps, this is one reason I drift toward H. P. Lovecraft: his monsters are/were original and still sparse.