tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post5634309351928124214..comments2023-11-01T02:35:48.057+00:00Comments on Geranium Cat's Bookshelf: RIP VI: My musings on scary readingGeraniumCathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03010199887691558717noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-7815188805580279292011-09-23T05:29:15.572+01:002011-09-23T05:29:15.572+01:00I saw this post last Sunday when you put it up, an...I saw this post last Sunday when you put it up, and I couldn't get back to thank you for writing about why you read horror, until now. Thanks, Geraniumcat! I loved reading your answers. you put a lot of thought into why you read horror, and enjoy being scared. You gave me some things to think about again, so I think I'm going to follow up at my blog, and link to your wonderful post. <br /><br />I agree with much of what you said, by the way - and I love that you need something alive (the boys, say, or your husband) in the same house while you are reading, to feel safe. I am exactly the same! I also like what you said about how reading mysteries fulfill a need to make sense of the fear we have in the world breaking down. That's a really good point to make. I think that's why I read mysteries too.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09095246748581382752noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-54833999153753499272011-09-17T15:33:08.149+01:002011-09-17T15:33:08.149+01:00LOL, Gaskella, me too! We most unreasonably didn&#...LOL, Gaskella, me too! We most unreasonably didn't have a television until 1967, so I'd only seen the William Hartnell Dictor at friends' houses.<br /><br />Nan, I usually hate anything from the killer's POV so I can't bear "psychological" thrillers, but I do rather like a sympathetic view of vampires and similar creatures.<br /><br />Margaret, I'm often struck that books you are reading are much more grisly than I can manage.<br /><br />Librarian, sometimes I have to go out in the dark to shut the chickens up, and I suddenly regret scaring myself!Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-77430315224534059992011-09-17T07:23:59.295+01:002011-09-17T07:23:59.295+01:00Very well put, and I especially agree with what yo...Very well put, and I especially agree with what you wrote under "Do I like being scared, safely in the comfort of my home?".Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-37929921384869517622011-09-17T06:41:25.564+01:002011-09-17T06:41:25.564+01:00Yesterday my husband asked me why I like scary sto...Yesterday my husband asked me why I like scary stories after I'd written about reading Life Support by Tess Gerritsen for the RIP challenge, so I've been trying to sort out why too. I can't stand to watch horror films at all or blood and gore in TV thrillers. But reading somehow seems to set it at a further distance and I can read scenes I could never stomach watching. And reading about evil and crime in the real world is definitely horrifying, producing feelings of revulsion as you said - I'm thinking of Raoul Moat!<br /><br />I like creepy though, and anything magical.Margaret @ BooksPleasehttp://www.booksplease.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-75319423629570476742011-09-16T19:47:12.114+01:002011-09-16T19:47:12.114+01:00Everything you wrote is braver than I am! I can...Everything you wrote is braver than I am! I can't take any of it. I quit a Scandinavian mystery the other day because it was so creepy. I think I'm especially creeped out by showing the killer's point of view, or his backstory. But horror, never. That said, I am, as I may have told you, going to try the new Chris Bohjalian. We'll see.Nanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15547916206007733970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182642520216901583.post-52845797724707097562011-09-16T18:41:48.654+01:002011-09-16T18:41:48.654+01:00What a great post. I tend not to like the out and ...What a great post. I tend not to like the out and out horror films like Haloween etc, but do like horror moments like the chestbuster in Alien. In my reading, I can cope with any amount of gore and undead beasties it seems, but still I usually avoid the 'file under horror' genre again - but make it a dystopian horror or give it a SF setting and I'll read it. Does that make sense? <br /><br />Patrick Troughton was my childhood Dr Who - and there was a story with Yetis in the London Underground - traumatised me for years of trips up to town!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com