What frightens you?

**morefutility** · June 3rd, 2009

I pose this question because I have recently finished Peter Straub's Mr. X. It was a well written book which I greatly enjoyed, but it wasn't exactly keeping me up at night. I am a great lover of horror lit, I consider it a necessary part of my literary diet (which is varied to say the least), but I am not always frightened by the horrors within. I, like many people I suppose, have a few trigger fears that aren't always brought into play in every novel. My biggest fears involve zombies and evil children. I think the former is sheer logic. The dead out number the living by insane numbers, and I can't reach my tire iron at any given moment. The latter has just always creeped me out. Something about the perversion of what is typically seen as the epoch of human purity gives me the chills. Also, any situation of helplessness without possibility of escap: stuck in an elevator, underground, trapped in a car whilst stalked by rabid dog, etc. What are your fears? Share them so that we may monopolize on them in our free-time (just kidding, I don't have that much free-time).

**Mr. Jingles** · June 3rd, 2009

Spiders, millipedes, june bugs, (anything insect that crawls or flies, basically), heights, sometimes water, and the Teletubbies.....Barney freaks me out too....oh, and also Donald Trump's hair....I mean, what the hell is up with it???

**Insomniak** · June 3rd, 2009

hell

**BDenbrough** · June 3rd, 2009

Well besides the obvious things I'm scared of (spiders, snakes, things hiding in dark water) I'm scared of things that are truly evil. The things that mankind do to each other. The evil things in the world that can happen to me. Zombies....eh...if I saw one I'd be scared, but it's so far removed from my actual existence that thinking about it doesn't really scare me.

It's hard for me to get scared by books, I can get creeped out, or get the chills...but not really scared. I've seen so many horror movies that it's almost impossible to scare me with those.

I'm also scared of flying...though I've been doing it since I was a baby. I get panick attacks really bad (I'm flying 3 hours at the end of this month...UGH!)

Evil children ARE scary though...because you don't really know what they're going to do!

**LadyPain** · June 3rd, 2009

Spiders, really high heights, flying, crowds, small spaces. I'm multi-phobic, but I'm getting better a bit at a time.

**marew1** · June 3rd, 2009

Do you know there is a book of short stories on Zombies called The Living Dead? SK has a story in there. It's a pretty good read. I find reading horror less terrifying than watching a horror movie. I actually get spooked when I'm alone in a room and someone comes in to the room and says something to me and I jump! Silly, isn't it?

**JRLauer** · June 3rd, 2009

What scares me the most is living by myself and dying alone.

**Natjen26** · June 3rd, 2009

Dangerous situations while driving. I have this idea that I'm going to die in a car crash. I don't know why I think this, but it feels like I'm right.

Also feeling trapped. Elevators, under water.
Animals don't scare me often, but a rabid dog could do the trick. I'm more scared of something happening to my loved ones, even my pets.