Horror 101, Monday

[chosehumanity]

"Today, it's your turn to shine," Mitchell said, beaming at the class. He clapped his hands. "Show us what you did this past week. It can be a film fragment, something you read from a book, just describing it. Tell me what it says about the phobia of your choice."

He put the remote to the beamer on the table in front of him, and backed away so he could sit down at the back of the class.

"What are you waiting for? The floor is yours."

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Re: Present Your Findings

[bitten_notshy]

"There is a terrifying book called That by Stephen King," Jack began. "Mostly, the monster is a clown, but there's one scene where the main characters are all out at dinner and they crack open fortune cookies to reveal objects related to their current fears. Two of them find bugs -- a giant mutated cricket, and a fly the size of a baby sparrow. When the fly breaks out of the cookie, it brings with it a puddle of pus."

"I think that's what entomophobia is about, really. It's about the decay that goes with insects as much as it's about the fear of things crawling on you. Cockroaches and flies come after sickness, filth and death, and that scares us more than the bug itself."

[OOC: I am about 90% certain this scene was also in the miniseries, but, in the interest of sleeping again sometime this week, I gave up looking for the clip. But gah. Scares the crap out of me.]