Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.
Michael ChabonSo it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
Michael ChabonHe had no idea of how long his life would one day seem to have gone on; how daily present the absence of love would come to feel. โJust watch me,โ he said.
Michael Chabon