Alan Moore on writing horror

Quote from the 2003 docummentary "The Mindscape of Alan Moore", for use in the writing workshop at www.alexhernandez.es

"Back when I was doing Swamp Thing which was ostensibly a horror comic, I found that it wasn't really effective to just sort of swamp the readers in horror every issue. You needed to do other things that would alleviate the repetitive qualities of the horror and make it more than a one note strip. I decided that what might be useful was to try and link up the elements of fantasy horror from our imaginations -werewolves, vampires, zombies and the like- with real-life horror -racism, sexism, pollution, the collapse of the environment- and thus lend these social issues some of the weight that fantasy fiction could offer. Most of us have little to fear from vampires. And yet we live in cultures that are every bit as dangerous despite the non-existence of terrible supernatural forces. "

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