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SAM NEILL ON HOW HE BECAME AN ACCIDENTAL HORROR HERO

A war of nerves

Creature feature

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,