User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/Community Question: Why You Love Horror/@comment-25947144-20150706152616

I think it's because I love to be scared. Negative emotions shouldn't be kept inside so we release them. We sometime burst into rage because we can't stand so much annoyance or inner pain, while others cry in the same situation. Fear, on the other side, is a negative emotion we feel without later having to feel bad for showing it. Many other genres are overused today: action, comedy, drama and romance.

Horror, on the other hand...well, just look on this site. A dozen thousand sories and while not all of them completely unique, one random individual may find himself in this place, reading hundreds of stories without two of them being very similar. It's also a part of my unique persona. I don't personally know anybody who likes horror too much and it makes me feel different in a good way.

That being said, the feeling you get after working hours, days or weeks to writing something and having someone to say it made him shiver is ireplaceable.