PITTSBURGH — To Ben Rubin, horror is about much more than cheap thrills and creature features.
"I love the genre and I think it reflects a lot of our society," said Rubin, a horror studies collection coordinator with the University of Pittsburgh Library System. "It's not just gory and fun. ... It helps us understand what it is to be human and navigate the horrors of the real world."
Over the past few years, Rubin has been helping Pitt slowly amass a collection of archives from some of the most celebrated horror filmmakers and authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. That includes acquiring the archives of "Night of the Living Dead" director George Romero in 2019 and, in November, securing the works of "Chiller Theatre" host "Chilly Billy" Cardille.
