Sleeping with the Lights On: The Unsettling Story of Horror

It's four in the morning and the lights are on. There's no way we're going to sleep, not after the film we just saw. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves? It seems almost mad that we would frighten ourselves for fun, and yet there are thousands of books, films, and games designed to do exactly that.

As Darryl Jones shows in Sleeping with the Lights On, the horror genre is vast, ranging from vampires, gho...