Peter Counter's Be Scared of Everything is a collection of essays about the horror genre across media and, in fact, in real life.The collection of texts is varied, moving form the personal to the horror blockbuster, touching on horror-adjacent things, and covering most media including opera, manga, books, and Led Zeppelin, essay about his family's history with Ouija boards, a long musing on Brian Fuller's Hannibal and Counter's own trauma, etc etc.
The collection is something of a mixed bag, just like the media it describes. Sometimes engaging, and thought provoking like P.T. or the music of Led Zeppelin and sometimes falling a little flat, with the repetitions of a bad Creepypasta. As with so many of these types of essay collection Counter is stronger when being personal, vulnerable and intimate.

I was provided a copy by NetGalley in return for an honest review.