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Why do we read scary books?

Written By Unknown on Thursday, October 29, 2015 | 11:04 AM

In reading books that frighten us, we have the choice of whether to explore our fears, whatever they may be, says author Lou Morgan

Some of my favourite books when I was 13 or so were horror stories. Point Horror, Stephen King, Bram Stoker, James Herbert… all the names you’d expect to see on the list. I used to sneak into second-hand bookshops and buy anthologies of vampire stories, smuggling them home in my bag or my coat because my mother didn’t approve. “They’ll scare you,” she always said. And she was right - they did. But that was the point.

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