Modern horrors in the translated works of Giorgio De Maria

As Kevin Corstorphine points out in the introduction to The Palgrave Companion to Horror Literature (2018), an “area that tends to be critically neglected […] is the presence of horror in literary Modernism.”[1] Perhaps even more critically neglected is the presence of modernism in literary horror. The broad association of horror with the Gothic, the Weird, and, more broadly, the Romantic tends to situate it squarely within the realms of pre-modernity, even where it may have temporally aligned with modernism. The intersections of modernism and horror, however, are exceptionally broad, and it could be argued that the historical travesties of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were so prominent in the collective consciousness as to make horror a precondition of modernism.