In my years of interest in Horror I have grown to perceive it in terms of a MEATaphor, that is, a metaphor of meat. For if you take a closer look at contemporary Horror you cannot but notice the fascination of its authors with such themes as the body, flesh, carnality, physicality, monstrosity, mutation, bio-technology and others, all of which can in fact be brought down to the representation of meat. In this paper I would like to present three different approaches to understanding Horror through meat. I would like to discuss the images of meat as food (the “anthropology” of Horror), the images of meat as flesh (the “biology” of Horror), and finally, the images of meat as the negative perception of the female body (the “psychology” of Horror).
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