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Fascinated me, yes. Genuinely made me frightened, no.

I tend to follow next in my own reactions in my head. One recent story that vaguely creeped me involved a laughing guy shooting a kid, the dad being woken out of a dream and they realized it was real and the guy was outside their bedroom. That had me drawn in and had impact as I am a husband and father. Yet when I play the story forward from the second the father is engaged I start seeing differences and divergences.

This is a very risky moment for the author. I am engaged but one detail sufficiently out of reality can completely throw me out of engagement. My mind circles around that one part. So far, no scary stories have kept that suspension of disbelief all the way through.

With that one story mentioned above, even though I can imagine many people would react similarly juat knowing it wouldn't be my home stops suspension of disbelief.