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History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.
Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)
That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.
Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.
It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.