num_pages: 256
description: How can we be genuinely frightened of vampires, even though we know they don't exist? How can people find pleasure in having the very wits scared out of them? Carroll presents the first philosophical and aesthetic analysis of horror.
language: English
title: The philosophy of horror, or, Paradoxes of the heart
titlecomplete: The philosophy of horror, or, Paradoxes of the heart
genres: Academic, Art, Philosophy, Film, Horror, Psychology, Theory, Criticism, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 554
publisher: Routledge