In "Danse Macabre", Stephen King describes how society influences the horror genre, be it books, movies, TV, radio, print or comics. He explores the history of the genre and real life situations that took place because of it.
The excerpt presented allows readers to approach a “forbidden door", because it describes a situation that would only occur once that "door" or threshold is crossed, but without actually crossing it. He himself said: "Perhaps we go to the forbidden door or window willingly because we understand that a time comes when we must go whether we want to or not."
