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Against Everyone with Conner Habib

AEWCH 236: THE SPIRITUAL LIFE OF HORROR

Against Everyone with Conner Habib

Against Everyone With Conner Habib

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.8679 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Concluding my series on HORROR, I talk about horror's offerings to the world - which go much deeper than most people (even horror scholars!) suggest.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is against everyone with Connor Abbeb. Well, friends, the past four episodes have been

0:06.6

all about my favorite genre, horror, and I'm going to end this series with one final episode,

0:15.2

which is a solo episode of me talking about the spiritual life of horror. If that sounds familiar to you and you're a long-time listener of the show,

0:24.2

this is a repost of an older episode.

0:27.0

However, I think it takes on new life in the context of the preceding episodes

0:32.7

with some of my favorite horror creators.

0:36.5

C.J. Lead, Paul Tremblay, John Langan, Sophie White, Nathan Ballingrud,

0:41.3

Sarah Gran, and Matt Cardin.

0:44.3

That's a lot of horror creators.

0:46.3

On this episode, I wanted to give you a kind of summary

0:52.3

of my thoughts about what horror is and what it offers.

0:57.0

It's so often reduced to politics that it's supposed to represent or just reflect on something

1:05.1

that's already happening in the world. I think the offering is much deeper than that. And because

1:10.0

I'm such a spiritually minded, motivated, and interested person,

1:16.6

I'm going to present what I think is happening spiritually with horror.

1:22.8

In addition to all of that, there are a lot of recommendations on this episode for horror

1:29.3

stories and movies and books, as well as some poems and podcast episodes that you might not

1:37.1

have heard of, even if you have looked at all those best of horror you've never heard of

1:43.3

lists that come out every year around October.

1:47.5

If you want to go deeper with any of those and go buy them or listen to the podcasts or whatever,

1:56.4

look at trailers of the movies, I've linked to all of it on patreon.com forward slash Connor Habib,

2:03.4

where the show notes are, and you can also support the show.

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