The first horror anime I ever watched was called Another.  It was incredibly good and I highly suggest it.  The premise is that a certain class at a high school is “haunted” by a former student who died an untimely death.  Now the students in the class die untimely deaths about once a month until its figured out how to stop the curse. Its really good and all the deaths are final destinationish and the finale is really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwUzWZBN7CE that’s a link to the first episode on you tube if you are interested.

I really like that through out the whole series there is never a definite monster.  All these horrible things keep happening to members of the class and their family members but there isn’t a set evil doer.  The sense of mystery and suspense is great throughout the entire series.  Feeling like anyone of the characters could die at any moment kept great suspense and horror throughout.  The extremely gory deaths helped too.

This “monster” has very little known about it and is extremely dangerous.  Despite that it fits very well with Carroll’s theory.  First it is extremely dangerous in a physical way.  Second it represents his idea of impurity.  The monster is a dead school girl yet she can still interact with the physical world.  This shows the fusion Carroll talked about in regards to his impurity.

I find it very interesting and intriguing that a Monster who is never seen or shows any sense of existing besides killing people can cause so much horror.  It seems the less one knows about a monster the scarier it is.  Is it simply just a fear of the unknown?  The kind that stopped explorers from initially crossing the Atlantic.  Fears of sea monsters that didn’t exist.  Or rather is it that the human imagination that makes monsters scarier than they are?  That really the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, and umbrellas. (watch Another to understand that)