PITTSBURGH —

Monsters, goblins and ghouls, and masked killers. All things you think of when talking about the horror genre, but it is much more than that.

"Horror lets you in and then educates you in a way that you can both think and feel," Professor Adam Lowenstein said. Advertisement

The University of Pittsburgh has established a new, first-of-its-kind Horror Studies Center.

The center is led by Professor Adam Lowenstein, who has dedicated his life to horror.

"There's horror that can lean more towards the real. And then there's horror that leads more towards, the fantastic. But it's all connected and it's worth studying together," Lowenstein said.

And Pittsburgh is the perfect hub for it. That is thanks to the man who created zombies as we know them today. George A. Romero's "Nigh

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