If there is a benchmark for essays about horror, then with all due respect to Stephen King, it must be the great David J. Skal. As a scholar of horror audiovisual and literary culture, he is well-known for such unforgettable works as Hollywood Gothic, the biography of Bram Stoker Something in the Blood and his legendary Monster Show. A Cultural History of Horror. These cult works, recently recovered (including the latter, which spent too long out of print and has returned just in time for Festival 42), not only made Skal a cult classic, but also one of the most knowledgeable people on the history of the genre. Coinciding with one of the central tracks of the festival's third edition, the American author will be talking with horror expert Sergi Viciana, taking a look back at his career and the reason why he thinks fear is perhaps the oldest and most powerful emotion for the creation of fiction, as Lovecraft would say.

*With simultaneous translation service