Lurking Under the Surface

"What can we learn from horror and religion? The horror genre has always spoken to our deepest fears and anxieties: fear of death, of the unknown, of knowing too much. Whether your're looking at classic narratives like Frankenstein or contemporary films like Get Out, horror provides a window into our culture and what makes us human. The same can be said of religion. Horror-movie buff and scholar Brandon R. Grafius finds common ground between these two seeminly disparate bedfellows -- horror and religion --in Lurking Under The Surface. What parallels can we draw between The Walking Dead and sacred texts? How do the stories in Scripture and apocalyptic films like A Quiet Place and Bird Box help us find hope when it's in short supply? When we treat them both seriously, we see that horror movies and religion lead us through the same sets of questions. Both explore questions of justice, hope, and our relationship to the world and the cosmos." -- p. 4 of cover.