To Charles's fascinated horror, the question is of central importance to the family, and there is only one possible answer.
Delivered by a crack ensemble, the word murmel becomes a cry for help, a shout of protest, a sigh of orgasmic joy, a yelp of nervousness, a screech of horror, a question, a statement of intent and much, much more.
People do "see" some of the things King's characters see (for a companion volume, try Oliver Sacks's "Hallucinations"), but it is one of the functions of "horror" writing to question the reality of unreality and the unreality of reality: what exactly do we mean by "see"?
Chatter and chatter about everything but the horror film in question, just a breakdown of a very boring life forced down everyone's throats.
He published a pamphlet, "Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East," which demanded that the Turkish irregulars should remove themselves from the peninsula.
But Shelley's story runs far deeper than simple horror fiction, and questions of suspenseful artistry are not the ones Roseanne Montillo asks in "The Lady and Her Monsters".
Is it her visit to buy insanely expensive spring clothes juxtaposed with impending international horror that she questions as absurd or some Sartre-like despair she's referring to?
It haunts us with another horror, and the questions that still hang over the Allied effort in the second world war: how much was known, how much could have been done?
William Gladstone, former prime minister and grand old man of the Liberal Party, was so enraged by the massacres of Christians that he published a pamphlet The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East.
Publicity given to the atrocities, especially in Gladstone's pamphlet "The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East" (1876), served to arouse public sympathy in Europe for the Bulgarians and other southern Slavs attempting to gain independence from the Ottoman Empire.
The twisty thriller ends with one of the most surprising finales I've seen in a horror movie, raising questions about the magnitude of the macabre events that could be happening right outside your window this very second.
