Allen Huntsman
Allen Huntsman asked Joe Hill:

How would you define a horror story? What are the key ingredients that make a story fit that category? I read in a book called The Philosophy of Horror that the story must depict people of our ordinary world in conflict with something extraordinary and unnatural--something we can't understand logically or scientifically. Do you agree with this definition, or do you think the category of horror is much wider?

Joe Hill I'm going to answer this one in the Escape Hatch newsletter, which folks can sign up for on my website!

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