Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed

Fiction for the Cosmically Disturbed

In Defense of Lowbrow Horror Fiction

Think of the Children!

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Lucas Mangum
Dec 18, 2023
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DISCLAIMER: In this piece, I will use terms like “lowbrow” and “juvenile” to describe the works of certain peers, so I want to make it clear that I don’t mean either term as a pejorative. Rather, as the title suggests, this essay is intended as a defense of texts designed to simply entertain.

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