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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
THE AIR WAS on fire.
Set into the stone wall was a towering Gothic window, the beveled panes
of its enormous, narrow body glowing in the afternoon sun. Dust motes
swirled in the shaft of light blasting through the glass.
Just beyond the light, in the shadows, things shifted restlessly.
Faces.
Staring. Silent. Hungry.
eir eyes were focused on a man in his late thirties, his brown hair
buzzed to the scalp. He was handsome, just over six feet tall, dressed in old
black Levi’s and a henley that showed off a thin, slightly muscular build. e
shirt’s long sleeves were pushed up to his elbows, revealing a collision of tattoos
covering his left forearm. ere was a strange, pitted texture to the skin into
which the ink had been set, his entire left arm and the back of his hand
wrapped in scar tissue. Dark lines snaked seemingly random courses across the
flesh, but within the abstract arrangement, images emerged. Trees. A
wildflower. e hollow eye of a skull. And flames, so many flames, devouring
all.
e man looked out at the three hundred students stacked upon each
other in the stadium seating of Budig Hall’s Hoch Auditorium. No matter
where he turned, he met someone’s rapt gaze. Technically they were here to
attend a freshman-level class called Introduction to Horror in Popular Culture.
But he knew why every seat in the lecture hall was currently filled. He was not
only a Lawrence resident and a KU alumnus, but a best-selling author, an
“expert” on the subject of horror.
Sam felt the bristles of hair rub against his palm as he ran a hand over his
shorn head.
Don’t blow it—you’re supposed to be a master of the macabre.
He walked the length of the floor of the lecture hall, feeling every set of
eyes tracking him like prey.
“What don’t we know?” he asked rhetorically, his voice echoing from the
highest, darkest corners of the cavernous room. “What is hidden—purposely
hidden—from us? e Gothic tradition is about secrets, dark secrets, awful
secrets, hidden just behind the façade of normality. Modern horror is still
heavily influenced by this tradition. But it’s not creepy old castles that hold
these secrets anymore. e Gothic has invaded our everyday lives. e old
farmhouse in e Texas Chain Saw Massacre. e suburban Japanese home in
e Grudge. Even a videotape in e Ring. e infectious evil that used to be
confined to crumbling ruins in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature,
like Lewis’s e Monk, Radcliffe’s e Mysteries of Udolpho, and Maturin’s
Melmoth the Wanderer has spread to our cities, our small towns, our homes.
And that makes it even scarier, doesn’t it?”
ere was a murmur of agreement, a few heads nodding within the manyeyed mass before him.
Sam began to pace more quickly, his own excitement on the subject
growing. “So what makes some stories innately Gothic? A Nightmare on Elm
Street hinges on the secret that the Elm Street parents are keeping from their
children, that they took the law into their own hands and killed Freddy
Krueger. Saw keeps us guessing about Jigsaw’s true identity and motive. So
why don’t these feel as entrenched in the Gothic tradition as other horror
movies?”
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