Fears In Stephen King's Why We Crave Horror

My grandma once told me, “If you stay up too late at night, the boogeyman will get you”. I never
believed her but I knew I wouldn’t want to see the Boogeyman if he actually existed. Most people would
actually want to watch these horrible beings. In this case, they would want to view a horror movie such
as “Friday the 13” or “Nightmare on Elm Street”. It is part of our Human Condition to be attracted to the
films and asking for more. Stephen King’s claims in “Why we crave horror” asserts us that humans crave
horror to face our fears, to re-establish our feelings of normalcy, and to experience a peculiar sort of
fun.

First timers would go to a horror film showing to face their fears. Like an amusement park, horror
movies can be a very scary experience for certain people. Such as, when King stated, “To show that we
can [...], that we can ride this roller coaster” (“Why We Crave” King 1). When he said this, he referred to
riding a roller coaster is like watching a horror movie. One special fear that almost everyone has is the
fear of death itself. As King once said, “Death is when the monsters get you” (King). What he could mean
here is that when you die, the monsters take over your body. Stephen King has such great information
on why we crave horror and one of those reasons is to face our fears.