Ever wonder what makes things scary? There are several different factors for something to be scary/creepy. Fear can be used in different ways such as literature and art. When it’s used in literature and art you can get drawn in by how it’s presented. When settings, lack of control, and the unknown occur in literature and art our imagination can take over and we start to lose it. Often times an imagination can cause terrible, mindless fear when shown in photographs because of what is shown in the photographs and our perception of fear like in Arthur Trees’s “The Dream Collector.” For example, in the photograph, “Hockey Player (84),” it shows a little boy in a hockey mask including the rest of a hockey uniform in the middle of the street
