The Inner Villain

Humans are their own worst enemy. Artists have known this long before anyone worried about the environment, genetic engineering, devastating nuclear war, or even before Freud began exploring the darkest depths of the mind.

Horror expert Nicolas Barbano maps out the strange, spiritual corners of fiction where the villain emerges from within.

We’ll hear about transformations beneath the full moon, glimpse the splinter from the troll mirror in our own eye, and wander foggy English alleys following Dr. Jekyll’s strange friend, Mr. Hyde. Not without concern—for as Yoda warns:

“If once you start down the Dark Path, forever will it dominate your destiny!”