"While it seems to lack the mimetic echo that Williams detects in pornography or straight horror..." It took me a moment to realize the author wasn't redefining porn as "straight horror"
I mean most porn is for straight people and most of it is horrific in some way so I guess it wouldn't be totally inaccurate
(BTW he means horror that isn't horror comedy)
now he's discussing Thing in The Addam's Family and it occurs to me that
i'm kind of surprised nobody ever did a comic or something for WTNV where Carlos jokingly refers to that girl who is a man's hand as "being just like Thing"
and then Cecil being JUST HORRIFIED HOW COULD YOU SAY THAT SHE IS NOT A THING