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“That was the power of radio at its height. The Shadow, we were assured at the beginning of each episode, had "The power to cloud men's minds." It strikes me that, when it comes to fiction in the media, it is television and movies which so often cloud that part of our minds where the imagination moves most fruitfully; they do so by imposing the dictatorship of the visual set.”

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“I've tried here to delineate some of the differences between science fiction and horror, science fiction and fantasy, terror and horror, horror and revulsion more by example than by definition. All of which is very well, but perhaps we ought to examine the emotion of horror a little more closely--not in terms of definition but in terms of effect. What does horror do? Why do people want to be horrified... why do they pay to be horrified? Why an Exorcist? A Jaws? An Alien? But before we talk about why people crave the effect, maybe we ought to spend a little time thinking about components--and if we do not choose to define horror itself, we can at least examine the elements and perhaps draw some conclusions from them.”

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“Accounts from Europe indicate that the danse macabre took another form, inspired by the Black Death, rather like our children's rhyme 'Ring o' Ring o' Roses', which refers to the Great Plague. In 1374, a fanatical sect of dancers appeared in the Rhine, convinced that they could put an end to the epidemic by dancing for days and allowing other people to trample on their bodies. It is not recorded whether they recovered but, incredibly, they began to raise money from bystanders. By the time they reached Cologne they were 500 strong, dancing like demons, half-naked with flowers in their hair. Regarded as a menace by the authorities, these dancers macabre were threatened with excommunication.”

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“Amerikanische Schriftsteller neigen eher dazu, die Sprache zu zerstückeln, als unsere britischen Vettern (doch ich behaupte entschieden, dass das englische Englisch wesentlich blutärmer als das amerikanische Englisch ist – viele englische Schriftsteller haben den unglücklichen Hang zu schwafeln; sie schwafeln in einem grammatikalisch einwandfreien Englisch, aber Schwafeln bleibt Schwafeln,”

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“Standen Sie jemals in einer Buchhandlung, haben sich verstohlen umgesehen und dann das Ende eines Buches von Agatha Christie aufgeschlagen, um zu sehen, wer es getan hat und wie? Haben Sie jemals das Ende eines Horrorromans aufgeschlagen, um festzustellen, ob der Held es aus der Dunkelheit ins Licht schafft? Wenn Sie das jemals getan haben, dann halte ich es für meine Pflicht, Ihnen drei schlichte Worte zu sagen: SCHÄMEN SIE SICH!”

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