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The cipher kathe koja summary6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s always best, as the March Hare and the Mad Hatter tell us, to start at the beginning, and if the European Surrealist movement has a beginning, it is in this macabre poetic novel, a work that would go on to inspire and/or lay the groundwork for everyone from Salvadore Dali to Clive Barker. If that isn’t horror, I’m not sure what is. These are novels (as well as short stories) that disturbed, unnerved, and in some cases flat out terrified me. ![]() ![]() Only around half of the following books are considered to be part of the horror genre per se and some people would argue that inclusion of the others on a list like this is an act of literary poaching. In their attempts at engaging with the world of the subconscious, surrealistic authors necessarily explored some of the same dark places that horror fiction does. The history of the Surrealistic movement proper, as well as its less easily classifiable bastard children, is deeply intertwined with the terrifying and the ghoulish. ![]() After all, as Lovecraft pointed out, the oldest and most terrible fear is the fear of the unknown, and art that refuses to resolve itself into reasonable and rational sense is often that which bothers us the deepest. Horrific fiction often veers into nightmarish and inexplicable territory. ![]()
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