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The Comedy Horror Movie: The KEYS to Both Laughs and Scares

September 30, 2022 by Industrial Scripts

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Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow has been cited as “the first great comedy horror story”, as readers were made to “laugh one moment and scream the …

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