![]() The message of much of US horror storytelling is that no world is more terrifying for a white man than the one that decenters him, and, as such, destroys him. In countless books and films, the Negro, the Indian, the inbred hillbilly, the toothless hag, and so on, scratch scratch scratch at the idealized American family’s windows. From another perspective, the hills are the refuge of those who never agreed with the project of Western modernity. This space beyond the edge hosts flora and fauna not yet and perhaps never to be fully subservient to the logics of settler colonialism, the plantation, and capitalism. ![]() They host murder and mayhem, mutation, backward criminality, and, simply, blackness. Wolves, witches, and water hemlocks are menacing enough, but the hills are also rife with forces itching to remind humans how insignificant we are. AT THE EDGE of the forest lurks a threat.
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