The terror you feel from reading “Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been?” is way different than the terror feeling of watching a scary movie. For me while reading “Where Are you Going, Where Have You Been? the feeling of terror I have gotten was pretty low and minimal. The story to me wasn’t very scary or suspenseful at all compared to a horror movie. It could be because I was reading words or so-called horror literature rather than watching a horror film. Where in a horror film I could visually witness horrifying scenes. Scenes that leave you stricken with gruesome images and nightmares inside your head for weeks at a time. Now with reading a horror story it requires your brain to think and try to create mental pictures that can make it a lot less scary for the reader. With watching a scary seeing the horror is way better than reading about it.
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Hello Aaron, It seems that our opinions are a little bit different. I would say that reading a scary story can actually be more scary then watching a scary movie. Although your points are accurate in regards to when you said that when watching a scary movie, your are then left with gruesome images and nightmares , however many experience this trauma from reading a scary book as well. The thing I like about books, especially the scary ones, is that the author is trying their very best to implicate fear into your mind. With that being said every detail that is being expressed has a purpose and meaning behind it.