Life is Fiction: Lessons Learned from SK Novels

[bopropadop]

If you love horror and the macabre affects your perception of the day-to-day, tell us what you think. For instance, do you still find yourself thinking about Norman and the movie, "Psycho" when you're home alone, knowing you need to jump into the shower before bed? Do you still hesitate when reaching to turn the light on in a darkened room, even though you know full well there will be no mysterious hand to gently guide you to the light switch?

How has SK fiction entered your world? This could be a life lesson or something that makes you think twice before turning off the light at night.

[tracie]

well when i was young someone told me that if you left the door of your wardrobe open you were giving an invitation to see your ancesters.i never knew my grandfather he died when i was two and thought of giving it a try but still can't get up the courage no no too scary.as for sk books,insomnia has changed the way i look on life not the little men in the flashy car but the main charactor how he started to see aurora's i do believe in it,like some dogs can sense a epeliptic fit coming on to his owner.i believe that there is a lot of things in this world that we can't see but are there.sk i believe made me see some of them.

[Todash]

I think I have mentioned in one of the threads here before that I'm not really afraid of anything out of the ordinary, that I don't have any "unreasonable" fears. That is not, in fact, entirely true. I'm terrified of the toilets at rest stops and in parks where there is no plumbing, just a sewage pit beneath the toilet. I could lie and say I hate them because they are gross, but the truth is they strike an unreasonable fear into my heart. I would rather (and did, while we were driving through Alaska and Canada) squat in weeds, in full view of the road, than use one of those things.

The book Dreamcatcher and the story "A Very Tight Place" in Just After Sunset did not help.

[Haunted]

I think I have mentioned in one of the threads here before that I'm not really afraid of anything out of the ordinary, that I don't have any "unreasonable" fears. That is not, in fact, entirely true. I'm terrified of the toilets at rest stops and in parks where there is no plumbing, just a sewage pit beneath the toilet. I could lie and say I hate them because they are gross, but the truth is they strike an unreasonable fear into my heart. I would rather (and did, while we were driving through Alaska and Canada) squat in weeds, in full view of the road, than use one of those things.

The book Dreamcatcher and the story "A Very Tight Place" in Just After Sunset did not help.

Your fear of holes in the earth is not an unreasonable one. Anyone with an iota of imagination could go screaming yellow bonkers if they let the spirit loose thinking on them holes (AND WHAT IS DOWN THERE!!!!) AGGGGGH!!!!!
[Double Post]
Oh man Oh man. It is that thing under the bed.

[LOTUS]

Well,yes - I do have a moment of thought when turning off the lights sometimes.Especially after reading SK.
I think I actually left the lights on after reading 1408 late at night.
Some passages in Salem's lot /when vampirized Danny was knocking at Mark's window,asking him to open it - "Open the window.Open the window, Mark. Open the window, Mark. Please! Let me in! It's OK, Mark, I'm your friend. *He* commands it!"/ and Bag of Bones /when Mike found his wife under the bed in his dream,especially what she told him - "Give me that, it's my dust catcher"/ also gave me the creeps.
After reading The Boogeyman,I have this thing - wardrobe door stays closed at night.

[Jax]

Oh man Oh man. It is that thing under the bed.

For me too it's the thing under the bed. A lot of times I will wake up in the middle of the night and need to use the bathroom. I will jump out of bed out as far as I can, because I always think that somehow in the process of swinging my legs over the side a bony hand is gonna grab my foot. It's ridiculous I know there's nothing under there, but at 2am it doesn't seem ridiculous it just seems like a precaution.

[rjt65]

For me not a fear factor--But SK's relationship comments are very good IMO. Character traits and thoughts hit ome... duma key....Wireman could be a guide thru life!

Do the day and let the day do you!
My otherlife (yah I realise we have a lot of other lives)
So mnay more...

[brownmouse]

Clowns- hate 'em!
And windows at night. I think Salem's Lot did that one in for me. The boy, scratching at the window- AHHHHHHHHHHH

[Speedygi81]

I guess I've learned to observe the world and the people in it more.

[mstay]

I always check the weeds by the side of the road for dead bodies.

I think the main thing I've learned from SK stories is 'be prepared'. You never know what the day will bring.