Danse Macabre

King, Stephen. Danse Macabre. 1980. New York: Berkley, 1982.

Wikipedia summary begins, "Danse Macabre (1981) is a non-fiction book by Stephen King, about horror fiction in print, radio, film and comics, and the influence of contemporary societal fears and anxieties on the genre. It was republished on February 23, 2010 with an additional new essay entitled "What's Scary". / Danse Macabre examines the various influences on King's own writing, and important genre texts of the 19th and 20th centuries."[1] This is an influential and much cited book by King on King and the horror genre, cited in J. Egan's essay on "Technohorror" (q.v.). "The subtext of the technohorror film, King maintains, suggests 'that we have been betrayed by our own machines and processes of mass production'" (Danse Macabre 156, quoted Egan 141).