Scared by the Bible

You may know the Bible as a testament of faith. But within this sacred book are also the world’s first horror stories. Conventional wisdom has it that the origins of the horror genre are found in the nineteenth century, in works like Frankenstein , Dracula , and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde . In this paradigm-shaking new book, Bible scholar and cultural historian Brandon Grafius argues that the Bible is, among other things, the world’s first work of horror literature.  &n