Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

where there’s still lots of windows so you don’t miss the river view

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It’s odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

OF course popular media contributes greatly–the pea soup vomiting,  possessed child changed over from a perfectly normal little girl in a manner of days or weeks at most and none of us ever looked at childhood quite the same again and so the Exorcist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist made changes in our lives and view of things.  Stephen King–who’s name still makes many shudder gave us rabid dogs and evil cars, in fact I think King’s real claim to fame is that he took our daily mundane existence and made it not of ho hum  but horrible with a transformation of the ordinary into evil or in Cujo’s  http://stephenking.com/library/novel/cujo.html case just scary as he does not meet the definition of evil (profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force.),  But is evil always scary—what’s scary to the good church goer may not be so to  the visiting Vegas gambler.

   

So Scary, like beauty,  is in the eye of the beholder.  The clown above (from King’s “It”  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/830502.It is evil–below he looks even less appealing)–Pennywise (at least in first picture) doesn’t look scary, unless you read the books—or if you have a fear of clowns.     Coulrophobia is not just a fear of spooky movie and/or book evil clowns (though one anticipates that King may have contributed to this to a greater or lesser extent) but there were all manner of bad clowns to follow Kings–including John Wayne Gacy,     http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/us/john-wayne-gacy-cold-case-breakthrough/   a real live clown who proved to be both the evil and truly scary for young men especially.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophobia

 Phobias seem so prevalent in our day and and age-

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Many of us remember the childhood fears—like creatures lurking under the bed, or things that go bump in the night.   But if you’re like me some times those things that we laugh at as silly things during the day light, those things sometimes still reach for us as I step out of bed in the dead of the night, half asleep and hear a bumping sound….don’t deny it, you’ve felt that tingle of childhood remembered fear before your big boy/girl mind takes over denying that you could ever think that way at your age.

While most of us no longer believe in the old legends of werewolves and vampires or ghosts and goblins (though none of us who’s just watched a really scary vampire epic and then goes outside or into a darkened room might have a momentary relapse into the legends) or as  I believe that while we do not believe on a conscious level down deep we have never completely given up

our old legends and the evil that fed our fears–otherwise why all the books, movies and TV shows.  The evil in the modern however have become a guilty pleasure and the vampire (and werewolf  too like in the teenie stories of  Twilight).    Living with what once stalked us in night  is our own guilty pleasure and the undead our love interest—hey when Brad Pitt plays one it’s not like many women are going to turn him down.