Bump in the Night
All right, my first thread - so here goes...
I was hanging out with a few other horror writers the other night and the conversation rolled around to the nature of fear. One friend in particular mentioned that he was a true believer in the supernatural and that he was actually scared of werewolves, vampires, ghosts, etc. That when he's out at night, he gets the willies and is often looking over his shoulder.
He saw in my eyes that I found this a bit funny and he assumed I simply didn't believe. I told him that I want to believe, I romanticize the idea of belief in the "other world" but I am not particularly scared of it. At night when I walk around alone, I tend to think of myself as the vampire, the werewolf, the thing that goes bump in the night. That people on the street should fear me.
How about you? Are you frightened in the dark or do you do the frightening?
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"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
Earl of Chesterfield
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Francis Bacon
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