Excellent piece, and this final paragraph is pure poetry. Well done.

That raw sense of unease that the best horrors inculcate is transcendent. If only for a moment, they send us somersaulting back to the bygone world where we splashed in puddles and feared the dark and asked whatever adult was within earshot colossal, fantastical questions. They can take us to that place in time when the world was more mysterious — when we were paralyzed with fear over monsters under our beds and inside of closets. And they remind us of the child alive within all of us who’s still afraid of the unknown.
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Excellent piece, and this final paragraph is pure poetry. Well done.
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Writer, bookseller, would-be roadie for the E Street Band. My ultimate goal is to make books as popular in Texas as high school football...it may take a while.
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