Facilitating the grotesque reception and human-nature interrelationship in Tunku Halim's Dark Demon Rising

• Main Authors: Ahmad Jafni, Nur Fatin Syuhada, Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam, Jujar Singh, Hardev Kaur
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35268/1/Facilitating%20the%20grotesque%20reception%20and%20human-nature%20interrelationship%20in%20Tunku%20Halim%27s%20Dark%20Demon%20Rising.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35268/; http://ejournal.ukm.my/3l/article/view/10236

Horror novels often celebrate gore, darkness, madness and emotional repression as the central themes to invoke terror and horror in readers. In the novel Dark Demon Rising (1997) the elements of grotesque and nature provide the impetus and the plot, thus invoking horror. Apart from the evident eleme...