Tag: Mary Shelley

While it may seem unusual to most people to want to be scared when already feeling uneasy, the horror genre has become a place of intrigue rather than fear to me.  Although it was originally popularised in the 18th and 19th centuries through the Gothic stories of Mary Shelley and Edgar Allan Poe, the origin of horror stretches back much further to Ancient Greek and Roman stories that concerned death, evil and the afterlife. Throughout its long history, horror has …