Horror Crossing

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And the creatures will not keep to their kinds: the vampire is a plague and the zombie a contagion; the eldritch alien is a cosmic god and the kaiju a force of nature; the yokai is at once spirit, monster, and ghost. Horror's bestiary is one web of dread, crossing every border it draws — for every monster, in the end, is the same returning fear in a different mask. — genre theory