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Tag Archives: fright

Why Do People Like to be Frightened?

No, really, why?
When I was conducting research for my dissertation, I was faced with this very question.  As a person who creates horror fiction, I had never really considered the reasons why horror fiction was popular. 

Posted byL. Marie WoodJanuary 8, 2018Posted inUncategorizedTags:cool, fear, fright, scaryLeave a comment on Why Do People Like to be Frightened?

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Celebrated psychological horror author L. Marie Wood is the winner of multiple awards including the Bram Stoker Award®, the Golden Stake Award for Literature, and the International Impact Book Award. She is also a MICO Award-winning screenwriter, an Elgin Award finalist poet, an accomplished essayist, and a playwright. Wood is the President of the Horror Writers Association, the founder of the Speculative Fiction Academy, an English and Creative Writing professor, as well as a horror scholar.

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