I'm currently trying to cram in a reading of Steven King's Dans Macabre in which he embarks on a history and description of horror fiction and film. I have quite a ways to go in the book, but thus far he has suggested that many of us may go to horror movies, etc., in order to (psychologically) deal with real-world horrors. In short, I think this, if you'll excuse my language, is B.S. - So, I think perhaps I should attempt to work on an argument for the way in which the affect in the subject of horror and revulsion is precisely one that requires a trope of concentration toward those real-world horrors. To put it in a "catch phrase" of sorts, if we get horrified by representations in print or film why is it we are not as directly and immediately horrified by those real-world horrors? -- One dilemma of course is that our immediate access to the real-world horrors remains in print and visual media....
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