![]() Being scared by a movie offers a safe catharsis, because the terror is confined to the screen. There were all these slasher films - the “Scream” movies, “I Know What You Did Last Summer” - and this, to my mind, was around the time when the “final girl” trope - the last female character alive to confront the killer - entered into the popular lexicon. VAN DEN BERG: I started watching in college. GAZETTE: When did your interest in horror films develop? We talked to her about formative slasher movies, losing your bearings, and having the good fortune of writing “The Third Hotel” in a haunted house. Born and raised in Florida, van den Berg has published two story collections and the novel “Find Me,” which was longlisted for the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize. In her new novel, “The Third Hotel,” van den Berg writes about a young widow who travels to Cuba after the death of her husband, a horror film scholar. ![]() Laura van den Berg teaches fiction workshops as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Harvard’s Creative Writing Program. ![]()
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