The Horror Show! at Somerset House: ‘riotous, anarchic fun’

‘Unironically terrifying’ exhibition charts how horror has impacted pop culture since the 1970s

The Horror Show! at Somerset House
‘A cacophony of ominous sounds and nightmarish shapes’
(Image credit: Somerset House)

The normally serene galleries of Somerset House have been “disrupted by a cacophony of ominous sounds and nightmarish shapes”, said Vicky Jessop in the London Evening Standard. The event is not some belated Halloween party; it’s an unusual new exhibition that charts the ways in which horror has influenced British culture since the 1970s.

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