On the other hand, if you look at the gothic, Anne Radcliffe was a Jacobin enthusiast. I suspect you could count del Toro (Devil's Backbone, a vampire flick, as well as Pan's Labyrinth) for the left. Also, most of the 'new weird' folks are of the left.... robert wood
> OK. One of my many shameful vices is a love of horror movies. So, the
> other day I picked up a double DVD of Spanish horror films (the Spanish
> make great horror movies. "Don't answer that ad in the paper for an
> apartment, Maria and Miguel! It's a HELL HOUSE!!!!!"). One of them was a
> film called La Culpa, which is 50% horror movie and 50% antiabortion
> agitprop. Qua horror movie it works really well.
>
> So I got to thinking about one of Wojtek's favorite subjects, the supposed
> correlation between political conservatism and fear. I know this is not
> 100% original, since none other than Stephen King has mentioned it, but
> the horror genre is inherently xenophobic and usually hypermoralistic, and
> I wonder if there is a connection between this and the conservative
> politics of many horror writers. HP Lovecraft is of course the archetype
> here, but, although King is seemingly a middle-of-the-road liberal and
> George Romero apears to have Vidalesque views on things, Dean Koontz and
> Dan Simmons are reactionary to the point of near-insanity (though they are
> distinguished by the fact that Simmons is a really incredible writer, one
> of the best around, while Koontz is a hack).
>
> What were Edgar Allen Poe's politics? Did he have any?
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