Take a look around and observe your surroundings. Where are
you right now? Are you sitting inside of a room? Is there anyone else with you?
Are you all alone? Most sources indicate that a majority people read tales of
horror by themselves. Something about this genre and medium compels you to
experience it in a quiet room, all alone. But why is this? Why subject yourself
to fright in solitude? What compels you to purposely scare yourself, to fill
your mind with visions of the grotesque and supernatural?
Do you enjoy feeling a sense of, what some deem as,
“paranoia”? What thrill can come from becoming suspicious of that shadow moving
in the corner of your eye? That shadow that you think “isn't anything”. Listen
closely; is there a noise you hear that was or wasn't there all along? Take a
look around. Is there anything you didn't notice originally? Is there something
different? Is something out of place? That feeling on the back of your neck: is
it your imagination or is it just too faint to pin-point?
When you read you expand the limitations of your mind. Clear
of auditory and visual distractions, it can push your conscious to perceive at
levels you do not naturally reach. The longer you read the more you become
aware. Maybe of things you thought weren't there.
There is a reason why your brain would block out these
sensations, though no one can be sure why. Maybe your mind is warning you.
Maybe there are things you weren't meant to see. Things you didn't realize were
there. Things that cannot be unseen. Things you cannot forget. Things that
shouldn't be.
Take a look around.
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