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Sexual role in horror stories


There are many horror stories out there, most of them having some sort of sexual content or sexual meaning implied to the story. The writers do this intentionally. Writers do this to attract the readers into their horror stories because the readers are mostly teenagers who are going through puberty and are experiencing sexual urges.
Most all horror stories involve some sort of creature, a male figure, attacking a female. Walter Evans explains “Various aspects of the monster’s attack are clearly sexual. The monster invariably prefers to attack individuals of the opposite sex, to attack them at night and to attack them in their beds.”(503) Analyzing the horr...