Why could be scared?

Misun Lee
AAD 250
May 3, 2007

What Is Horror Literature?

Horror is based on fear. Different ages will have different feeling about horror, for example, children afraid of some monsters or ghosts that they heard from a story. They might think in their closet or under the bed, there is a monster or ghost is waiting for the lights off, and takes them away or hurt them. For adults, it could be many different reasons to make them feel horror, such as, death, jobs or other things that relate with their daily life. Those things which makes people feel scare could be different in the different generation, like terrorism, or nuclear war. Also, the point of view of horror is depending on personal emotion, some people like it, but some people don’t.
It is hard to make people to like horror or dislike it. As horror is a very emotional feeling everyone has their owe opinion about horror, and they all have different reasons to like or dislike it. According to the article, Stephen King wrote "We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones." It is true that people can be stronger by watching some horror or reading horror novels, because if we can deal with those horror fiction, then what else we can not deal with in our real life.

Reference

Justin D. Davis. (2007). What Is Horror Literature. BellaOnline's Horror Literature
Editor. Retrieved http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art21188.asp