Philosophy of Horror : Or, Paradoxes of the Heart, Hardcover by Carroll, Noel, ISBN 1138127981, ISBN-13 9781138127982, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US First Published in 1990. Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a “transmedia” phenomenon.