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2 weeks agoThe Virtues of Horror and Gore
Morbid curiosity is an evolved personality trait that helps people safely confront fear, disgust, and the unknown through horror media rather than causing violence.
Do you run to a haunted house every Halloween? Do you rubberneck after a grizzly car crash? Do you devour grotesque true crime documentaries? If so, that's natural-and it may even be good for you, according to Coltan Scrivner, a researcher of all things macabre and a fan as well-one recent project was founding a horror film festival where he lives in the Ozarks.