Horror as a Theory of Everything

A 448-page book tracing the history of horror cinema alongside the history of humanity — showing how monsters and ghosts have always mirrored the political and psychological anxieties of their time, from German Expressionism to torture porn and post-horror. The book combines two layers: 16 historical chapters explaining what happened in the world and in horror cinema, and 18 meta chapters offering philosophical lenses to interpret it. This duality shapes the design — clean white pages for history, inverted black margins for meta chapters, creating a "book inside a book" effect. An opening essay argues horror has always been political; a closing essay argues it is also philosophical. Built on 3 colors, 2 typefaces, and a bold system of lines, the project features 400+ archival images and film stills, 8 data-driven infographics — including a four-layer timeline linking cinema, science, and world history — and an index of 250+ films.