Why We Crave Horror By Stephen King Analysis

A Craving for Horror: Based on the Works of Stephen King Stephen King’s work asserts macabre and grim moods to support that we are intrigued by horror films because ‘we’re all mentally ill’ (King, “Why We Crave Horror” 1). King uses “Strawberry Spring” to provide the reader a rush to show “that we are not afraid” of whatever grim scenes are to follow (King, “Why We Crave…” 1). He opens the story with a narrative of Gale Cerman’s death in which the narrator describes the unusually spine-chilling environment of the campus as “when night came the fog with it, moving silent and white” to lead up to the moment where a student found himself “dropping books on and between the sprawled legs of the dead girl lying…” (King, “Strawberry Spring” 1). With his use of morbid imagery and diction, King draws the reader into the following dark events
As mentioned earlier, the author addresses that we yearn for the rush that comes along with and to add to that he claims that “the horror film has become the modern version of public lynching” (King, “Why We Crave…” 2). He uses an analogy of the game of football being a form of battle for the player to depict this. He also recounts that these stories deliver a “very peculiar sort of fun” a kind in which “comes from seeing others menaced” (King, “Why We Crave…” 2). For instance, this satisfaction is experienced by the reader when he explains the gruesome details of Adelle Parkins’ death as “they found part of her in the back seat and part of her in the trunk” (King, “Strawberry Spring” 4). With such illustrated deaths of the murderer’s victims, King intrigues the reader with a generous amount of gore. A logical explanation to the thrill that is experienced when seeing others going through such terror would be in support of King’s assertion of human’s sharing a degree of mental