How very true!
Ms.Christine and Susanne, you have hit the nail right in the centre of head! Your aim is truer than you imagine. Whatta shot! Though I dont know if you have hit the nail deep enough – deep into the heart the darkness of the Western heart, which gave rise to these genres of Western ‘literature’.
An Indian columnist laments how Indians lack literary talent and ability!
The Indian churail (or pisach or djinni) faces similar problems as the Scandinavian myling or the Er Gui of China: they don’t translate well outside of their culture.
India may have had local incidents, where an oppressive zamindar may have created a market for horror stories and monsters – but without genocide, slavery and massacres to fall back on, popular imagination simply does not have the fodder to create ghouls and monsters.
And that is reason for Indian churails being rare – not lack of literary ability in Indians.
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