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I know for myself I have always had an interest in the genre and for the darker side of life in general, I didn't grow up watching horror films all of the time because I wasn't allowed to as a child, I grew up in a very staunch Christian home and anything that was horror or had magic or even dragons in it I was not permitted to watch. Halloween was not celebrated in my household and even at school I was not "supposed" to participate in anything having to do with Halloween, I was suppose to leave the classroom and go to the principal's office and sit there until that particular activity was over. Crazy right, but even during this time period, I still found ways to enjoy what I have always been drawn to. I would watch horror movies at sleepovers at my friend's houses. I would wait until my parents went to bed to watch Sammy Terry and his Nightmare Theater and the Universal monster movie marathons that ran every Halloween. I did participate in the Halloween activities in school, what they didn't know didn't hurt them. I left the books I liked to read at school, they would have just been torn up and thrown away at home. I guess what I'm getting at is that some of us are just drawn to the macabre and there is nothing weird about it, it doesn't mean we're psychotic, it doesn't mean we've become desensitized, we just except death a little better than most. The macabre is something humanity has enjoyed since mankind has been documenting history and probably before that, no reason to stop now.
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