I’ve read a couple fo books recently that have had me pondering about some aspects of the current political climate and in particular the sheer relish in cruelty that we see from some of the Maga or Reform crowd. The first book was Scott Poole’s Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror. He traces the impact of the First World War and how it shaped the early horror output, especially the burgeoning film industry. He argues that films such as 1924’s Nosferatu are direct r...
