While we are on the subject of Halloween, this is a wonderful and very unusual grand history of Russian horror. Much of the discussion compares Russian horror with the West.
Unlike in the West, monsters are not simply pure evil but have strengths as well as weaknesses. Russian horror is less about screaming but more about why “the dark” exists in the first place. The article traces the Russian history of horror from the pagan forests to the effect of Christianity on horror. It closes with the psychology in which horror is connected to the mind.
Read in RT
