A lot of horror stories start like this: a family moves into a suspiciously cheap dreamhouse. Over the course of the story, the house reveals its sinister nature--voices whisper unsettling things, mirrors reflect people who aren’t supposed to be there, the walls bleed--and at last the occupants discover its terrible secret. You can’t gentrify a haunted house--you either have to accept it as it is, burn it to the ground, or run away. But that doesn’t stop people from trying. And right now, there’s a cheery little squeeful family trying to move into a creepy old house called horror fiction.
In the latest episode of Rite Gud, Canadian horror author Andrew F Sullivan joins us to talk about the gentrification of horror fiction. Listen here. Transcript here.