Cairo: Safa Ashour
 
Can we now talk about a new genre of literature that we have "horror literature"?

Egyptian young writers are betting on the possibility of prosperity of this species in our countries, especially in Egypt. They cite the high sales index of many of their fiction and fiction productions. "Culture" polled the views of a number of young writers of horror literature, and how he managed within seven years to achieve this boom in the publishing market at the moment of the life of the community, has seen the exacerbation of political and social conflicts, and ignoring the monetary movement of this emerging genre.

Novelist Dr. Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq, who left this month, is the father of this genre of literature, as the novelist Amr Marzouq, the author of the novel "Meidum," in which the writer combines horror, crime and historical fantasy, has achieved good sales.

Marzouk says: "The generation of the nineties and eighties was influenced by the series" Beyond Nature "by Ahmed Khaled Tawfiq, from the first issue in 1994 until the last issue of 2014. The monthly series dealt with the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, bald baldness, , In mysterious and exciting worlds, with a good artistic plot. " But this does not mean that everything published by the young writers - influenced by the series - is good literature, as confirms Marzouk, but sometimes the writings are shallow and superficial, and this is due to some publishing houses, which are only to increase the proportion of distribution, On the content account.