Blue Light of the Screen is about what it means to be afraid - about
immersion, superstition, delusion, and the things that keep us up at
night. A creative-critical memoir of the author's obsession with the
horror genre, Blue Light of the Screen embeds its criticism of horror
within a larger personal story of growing up in a devoutly Catholic
family, overcoming suicidal depression, uncovering intergenerational
trauma, and encountering real and imagined ghosts. As Cronin writes, she
positions herself as a protagonist who is haunted by what she watches
and reads, like an antiquarian in an M.R. James ghost story whose sense
of reality unravels through her study of arcane texts and cursed
archives.
In this way, Blue Light of the Screen tells the story
of the author's conversion from skepticism to faith in the
supernatural.Part memoir, part ghost story, and part critical theory,
Blue Light of the Screen is not just a book about horror, but a work of
horror itself.
Blue Light of the Screen : On Horror, Ghosts, and God - Claire Cronin
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