Scaring Children
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After the Green Ribbon
The story of the girl with the green ribbon was once a generic tale of horror. Now, it is about about gender.
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I Didn’t Want to Miss Baby Night
Children appear in horror all the time because to parent one is naturally terrifying.
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Ingredients of a Goosebump
All the things I would have shielded my younger self from, they crop up in books, too. And they are not the monsters with the glowing eyes.
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The Handbook for the Recently Deceased
In the film ‘Beetlejuice’, death is exaggeration. To die is to become a different size, to be viewed as grotesque by an outside observer.
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The Mothers and Their Daughters; The Leavers and the Stayers
I love to be a leaver. To be the one that steps out into the unknown, even as I am terrified.
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We Are All Still Children
A lot of my fears have been made real by the last year. And somehow, some way, I have returned to an insatiable appetite for things that scare me.