The Frighteners Av Peter Laws

<i>The Frighteners</i> follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre, to understand why so many people love things that are <b>spooky</b>, morbid and <b>downright repellent</b>. He meets <b>vampires</b>, hunts <b>werewolves</b> in Hull, talks to a man who has slept on a mortuary slab to help him deal with a diagnosis, and is chased by a <b>chainsaw-wielding maniac</b> through a farmhouse full of hanging bodies.<br><br>Staring into the darkness of a Transylvanian night, he asks: What is it that makes millions of people seek to be disgusted and freaked out? And, in a world that worships rationality and points an accusing finger at <b>violent video games </b>and<b> gruesome films</b>, can an interest in horror culture actually give us <i>safe</i> ways to confront our mortality? Might it even have power to re-enchant our jaded world?<br><br><b>Grab your crucifixes, pack the silver bullets, and join the Sinister Minister on his romp into our morbid curi