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Ack, you nailed it! I like having my characters struggle with horrible scenarios and improve themselves, learn about the dangers of the world, and move on, even if in the end they don't "win" or...

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Wow, I also work at Target . . . :) I work at yours too, though you never see me. . . not until the darkness falls and the lights go out. When the cash registers cease functioning and the door locks...

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What she said. :)

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This was me, too -- I was always scared of horror, but somehow drawn to it as well. In fourth grade, I checked out Alvin Schwartz's _Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark_ so many times in a row that I'm...

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I like being scared. Plain and simple.

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This.

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Yeah, I think it's the adrenaline for me, as well. But like Farifax, I probably couldn't tell you exactly what it is? On a different note, one of the solid reasons I like horror is because it's...

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I think my love of monsters grew out of liking dinosaurs when I was kid... but I don't necessarily always want monsters in my horror. I usually want some element of the supernatural though... or...

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The sort of horror I like usually plays on my desire to know about the unknown. Even if it's just "is the source of terror real or all in the character's mind?" Or "is the conspiracy really true?"...

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I love the adrenaline rush and facing my fears.

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I agree :3 horror can be very aesthetically pleasing, in some cases...

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I've always been interested in things that are creepy or "bad"...as a kid I always loved the Halloween episodes of cartoons the best, and if you give me a choice, I'll read a book about murders,...

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I'm not sure why i like horror, i'm late to the game as I lived a sheltered live growing up and my parents prevented us from watching anything that scary. Well I found ET terrifying as a kid.... But...

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Young pretty, barely legal Girls screaming in teroor Bwahahaha!

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I have no idea. In many ways though, I find imagery and emotion of horror to be unironically beautiful. Where some people consider nature and architecture beautiful, I think skulls and blood, and...

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I like horror because I find the stories really interesting. Also I find fear itself fascinating.

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I like horror because it peels back all the extraneous crap of everyday life -- we've got so much going on these days, with worries about work, bills, relationships, the fact that our neighbors' dogs...

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For me horror is more about facing fear than fear itself. Looking directly at what terrifies you can be good for you. Especially if you, or the characters as a proxy for you, overcome it. That doesn't...

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I enjoy suffereing, fear, loss, and the fight for survival. I love watching/reading about people who have fallen outside he safety of society and find themselves in a living hell. Which ones are going...

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I've been watching horror since I was a small child. I would sneak behind the couch when my uncle and father were watching something gruesome, sneak a look, and run away screaming. They would laugh. It...

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