Unfortunately placed between the historically ravenous powers of Germany and Russia, Poland was once the biggest and most feared of the three. Grabiński’s home nation-Poland-has always been one of Europe’s darkest parts, and usually not because of Poland’s own doing. In the case of Stefan Grabiński, these questions all reach a logical conclusion that helps to explain away the author’s weird obsessions. After all, what type of person dedicates their life to focusing on those things that terrify us? What type of environment produces such a person? Often the more we search the more mysterious they become.
X is an apt metaphor for the entire experience of reading horror fiction: we, the readers, look for the mysterious man (or woman) behind the bloody red pen. Hunting after the obscure and arcane has always been a fixture of the horror genre.
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