Fans tattoo themselves with Little Sisters, and Big Daddies, the creepy, skulking enemies in BioShock, the narrative-rich horror game that started this series in 2007 with a fictional plane crash and murderous adventures in an underwater city called Rapture.
"This paradoxical unreal reality is a rich playground for horror".
Secrets are revealed: flowers of evil are springing from a psychosexually rich soil of horror.
I've had no opinions to offer about those high-toned entries, however, because I've been spending all my time with the festival's seamy underbelly: a rich, fatty layer of horror, crime, martial arts and transgressive comedy.
Mark "League of Gentlemen" Gatiss's first stab at writing for the Doctor was a rich stew of genuine horror and gleeful cliché, with a big dollop of Eng Lit chucked in for good measure.
Ultimately, we are supposed to feel morally compromised watching rich people inflict these horrors upon enslaved androids day in and day out that is, if we (not unlike William) consider ourselves decent human beings.
Most good horror movies are rich with subtext.
This is the reflex horror of the rich at any measure perceived as a challenge to business, on the grounds that it must be an assault on freedom; the belief that most taxes are violence against the entrepreneurial spirit.
"In Ghana and much of Africa, environmental standards are now tougher than the World Bank requires".Mr Jonah and Mr Ibrahim each smile at the recent outburst of horror in the rich world at the growing influence in Africa of China, after centuries of colonial plundering.
And Patterson plainly relishes collaborating with reporters on a true-crime horror show, titled "Filthy Rich," about the highly affluent sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.
It is that supple movement between laughter and horror that makes this rich pageant of Tudor life her most humane and bewitching novel.
