This autumn, the soothing surroundings of Somerset House - with its Georgian architecture and spaces for quietly contemplated great art - will be disrupted by a cacophony of ominous sounds and nightmarish shapes as it tries to tell “a twisted tale of modern Britain”.
The Horror Show!, its groundbreaking new exhition, aims to trace how modern horror has influenced British culture since the 1970s. The show celebrates “our greatest cultural provocateurs and visionaries” and how ideas rooted in horror have inspired 50 years of “creative rebellion” in Britain.
