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The Secret to Horror Fiction — Discovered!

Posted by By Michael Arnzen October 10, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange

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The secret to horror fiction is in here…somewhere. [from “The Structure of Awareness” by Thomas Oden — appearing in Diagram magazine, vol 1.6]

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