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Catholic symbology plays an outsized role in horror — thanks, in no small part, to the influence of “The Exorcist.”

As a grand statement on America — the kind the album’s cover sets you up for with its striking stars-and-bars symbology — “Cowboy Carter” feels a bit mushy.

The show charts his progression into increasingly florid work — near-cryptic symbology woven into baroque, calligraphic abstraction, which he made nearly until his death in 2019.

Since that post, he has received almost 2,000 images containing homemade figurines, many holding posters of protest with curious symbology.

The zombie is ambrosia for the mind of the horror-media buff: it possesses the visual and visceral spectacle of necrosis, the ever-present symbology of death, the excitement of the interminably strange.