“You better get in this house before the windigo gets you.” This is a phrase many of us grew up hearing from our mothers, when it was time to come in the house. In my mind, that was kind of like “the boogie man.” Neither of them were a real threat, I had no fear or horrifying images, it just meant it was time to come in the house. When I saw windigo psychosis as an option for this culture-bound syndrome term paper, I choose it for a couple reasons, first I remembered the phrase from above and it is a Native American culture-bound syndrome.…
On July 31, 1961, Harry Crews experienced a father’s worse nightmare of becoming an orphan to his own son. At the age of four Patrick Crews was found face down at the bottom of his neighbor’s pool leaving behind his mother Sally, father Harry, and a younger brother Bryon to get through the hardship as a family. The tragic loss of Patrick made Harry think this terrible incident was his fault filling him with guilt. He believed he was the reason of Patrick’s death and could not see any other reason as to why he died. Just as Harry was going crazy his family stepped in forcing him to raise his other son.…
I was terrified! Completely frozen with fear! What, oh what could this monstrosity be? Oh, what a terrifying monster!…
Hi, Craig! It’s safe to say Christopher Vogler changed literature composition’s face forever when he created his “Hero’s Journey” outlining concept. One among its most astonishing assets is how it can get shortening whereby commercial inclusion, if not incorporation in brief YouTube videos, both become possibilities. Questions involving shortened versions of the outline get presented, about brief movies, Internet contents, and games. I have always believed humans have many means by which to communicate each stage associated with humans’ journeys through brief imagery.…
“Yeah, sure,” Foster replied. “Jimmy meatball is in the back of the terminal acting like the wannabe thug that he thinks he is.” “Jimmy Meatball,” I uttered curious as to why Foster would call him that, but I kind of had a notion already. “Yeah, Jimmy Balenducci is his real name, and he’s from the Hamptons. His old man is a CEO for some software company,” Foster said dismissively.…
In the clandestine cover of nearby bramble, I witnessed the raid of Ichabod Crane. Many have speculated, but I am certain of the events of that fateful evening and where legend abandons, I elucidate. I had followed Crane throughout the hours succeeding the attack. However, not only had I followed, I lusted.…
Okay. Okay, so introduce yourself, name and age. My name's William Vacious Vafakos.…
Sugar Rush It was a foggy Halloween night and I had just finished putting on my zombie costume. I was a zombie from The Walking Dead. The smell of rubber filled my nostrils as I put my mask on. A realistic scar stretched from my chin to my eye! I wore teared brown rags for my costume.…
It’s a story that haunts me every day. It was October 30th Halloween night, I got had out of work at 11:00 pm. It was raining outside when I got into my car, I was all soaked because it was heavy rainfall. Before I go home I stopped to pump gas at chevron, when I stepped out of my car there was a man who came up to me dressed as a devil I didn’t know if it was his hollowed costume. He told me that my tire needed air.…
Memoir One of the scariest moments on my annual trip to South Carolina happened last year. I was at this really cool science place with lots of activities and rides, it was called Wonderworks. I was looking around at all the families and all the other kids who where about to do what I was going to, lie on a bed made of nails. The nails were facing upwards and looked really sharp, I was paranoid to lie down because I felt like I would get stabbed by 3,500 nails and I would die. Finally I walked around and worked up the nerve to go over to the bed and then I was about to lie down.…
Have you ever experienced the powerful attraction of fear? Have you ever wonder why your imagination run wild when you experience something terrifying? Sometimes people react differently to fear as they normally would. Fear is a compelling phenomenon that drives people to react different or even against their own will when they are stimulated by fear. Imagination overcomes reason when the need for something to be true overwhelms the logic of an individual.…
It all started one morning I was getting up and going in the kitchen to get coffee. I heard a silent groan and I got scared. I went and checked what it was and I saw a man who looked like he got burnt. So I slowly went back in my room and woke up my husband Junior. When I woke him up he was confused on why I was so scared.…
Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in his article “Fear of the Monster is Really a Kind of Desire” examines the issue of being with a monster or better be the monster ourselves. The desire it can be either for power, freedom, or even just to be the center of attention. “We distrust and loathe the monster at the same time we envy its freedom, and perhaps its sublime despair” (Cohen, 190). People tend to watch scary movies and read monster stories and feel attracted to one of the monsters and wish to be that monster. In Halloween is the only time when a human being can express the realm of the monster they want to be just for a night and celebrate by asking for candy in the neighborhood or having a Halloween party.…
The Big Bad Monster The beast was vicious. He came out of the shadows to reveal his hideous face, He had large red eyes and demonic horns on his head . He snout looked like the one of a giant bull . His entire face was covered in thick black scales when he opened his mouth it revealed several rows of large pincer of teeth. His body was bulbous and his horns sticking out randomly from his scaly skin.…
I had never felt a genuine sense of fear. That wasn’t until I visited the first haunted house of the Halloween season. During my childhood, I was overly obsessed with horror movies and anything that was guaranteed to send shivers down my spine. I lived to seek for blood and guts. I lived to seek for scary.…