January Talk -- scary fiction
Jan. 16th, 2021 05:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelseagirlJanuary 16: How do you feel about scary fiction -- not horror or mystery genres across all their wide spectrums, but specifically stories that want to frighten? (Amaka)
The most terrified I ever was by a story was the first time I read Dracula. I'm not exactly sure how old I was -- probably junior high school. It was over the summer, and as we didn't have air conditioning (1970s, Northeast, not considered necessary) I would sit near the sliding doors to our back deck and read. Dracula scared me so much that I wanted to close my windows at night -- not a good idea in that weather! -- and I slept with a cross around my neck for a couple of years. I mean, I was really scared.
I even checked out and reread the same library copy the next summer.
I occasionally read horror of the more terrifying sort but even now I find it overwhelming.
The most terrified I ever was by a story was the first time I read Dracula. I'm not exactly sure how old I was -- probably junior high school. It was over the summer, and as we didn't have air conditioning (1970s, Northeast, not considered necessary) I would sit near the sliding doors to our back deck and read. Dracula scared me so much that I wanted to close my windows at night -- not a good idea in that weather! -- and I slept with a cross around my neck for a couple of years. I mean, I was really scared.
I even checked out and reread the same library copy the next summer.
I occasionally read horror of the more terrifying sort but even now I find it overwhelming.
