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WITH gruesome television series about vampires, werewolves, serial killers and zombies earning huge ratings, and a new cinematic bloodbath opening seemingly every week, the cultural appetite for horror raises a curious question: why do so many of us enjoy being disgusted and terrified?
Years later, re-watching Craven's movies alongside my wife— Shocker, Cursed, the Nightmare films in the early delirious days of new parenthood, how soon the surreal and the real became one, our predawn house alive with werewolves and killers that just wouldn't die onscreen and infant cries from the other bedroom.
Our book that deserved to do better Neil Mackay's The Wolf Trial is a novel based on the true story of Peter Stumpf, the first convicted serial killer in history – who was tried as a werewolf in Germany in 1563.
So while there are vampires and werewolves in "Supernatural," there's also been a satanic Santa Claus and a killer angel.
"I think this is a new golden age for lovers of fantasy fiction; so many new and talented writers offering their vampires, werewolves and other supernatural heroes," said Rice, who has recently written a new series about a contract killer recruited by a seraph, as well as two novels about the life of Christ.
And despite the alleged profusion of rapists, psychotics and chain-saw killers now stalking the roads of America ("You'll be a target for every wacko and werewolf from here to San Francisco," one friend warns before Brookes sets out from his home in New England), he never fails to be amazed by the level of good will out there on the lonesome highway.
The first Adamsburg novel to be translated into English, Have Mercy On Us All, featured a town crier; in Wash This Blood Clean From My Hands a killer is on the loose with a trident, while Seeking Whom He May Desire sees villagers convinced a werewolf is at large in their community.
(Not a werewolf, a wairwulf).
Jacob is a sexy werewolf!
