The remix turns out to have a complex subject: the various ways in which a dark and distorted version of gay life has been an object of pity, horror, and fascination for straight audiences, even "enlightened" ones, through the years.
The 1952 children's novel Charlotte's Web written by E. B. White, is notable in its portrayal of the spider in a positive manner as a heroine rather than an object of fear or horror.
The New York Times published a review on October 20, 1862, describing how, "Of all objects of horror one would think the battle-field should stand preeminent, that it should bear away the palm of repulsiveness".
Most people still regarded them as objects of horror.
Yet Browning, who ran away from school to join a circus where the 'freaks' performed, was concerned not to make his strange performers objects of horror or pity but to show thm in such a matter-of-fact manner (without close-ups or dramatic music) that you could even watch Randian The Hindu Living Torso, without arms or legs, light his own cigar without assistance.
In his account of Queen Mary's death (1694), Macaulay spoke of smallpox as indiscriminate and pernicious, attacking royalty and the poor alike, "turning the babe into a changeling at which the mother shuddered and making the eyes and cheeks of the betrothed maiden objects of horror to the lover".
That was nearly a decade ago, when Mr. Mason weighed about 980 pounds, and the spectacle made him the object of fascinated horror, a freak-show exhibit.
There's an element of horror here.
Their red-complex was kind of neurosis strain that was based on a distorted image of communism, and includes a sense of horror (Kim 2009: 160).
Edgar Allan Poe was an early master of horror.
