I leaned something else while watching The Skeleton Hour on zoom tonight. The authors interviewed did not see pandemics selling well, although Lucy A Snyder said she just sold a pandemic novel to a major, big four publisher. The main things they saw for the future of horror was climate change. There's even a name for it now, Cli/Fi.
They also predicted a resurgence of gothic because we've been stuck, lonely and isolated at home. Even if readers don't want to think about COVID, they'll be inclined to think about the spookiness of isolation.
Right now, I'm putting my money on climate change as being the big scare of the future. Or now.
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