Welcome to the Council of Tren Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Halloween is just around the corner, a fitting time for me to talk about some of my favorite

horror genres.

Welcome to the Council of Tren Podcast, I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist Tren

Horn.

It is free for all Friday, Mondays and Wednesdays we talk about apologetics and theology,

Friday we talk about, really whatever I want to talk about.

And today I want to talk about horror genres.

When I was younger I was definitely into horror, not so much horror films, I did watch

a fair number of them.

I still enjoy it, but I like reading, I guess this is kind of related to horror, things like

true crime, unsolved crime mysteries, there's stuff like that that can definitely keep

me awake at night, folktales, urban legends, how is it kid?

I really enjoyed reading Goosebumps, I love the Goosebumps books, I think I actually did

a free for all Friday on Goosebumps not too long ago.

And scary stories to tell in the dark because they had those creepy illustrations on them,

like I just, I'm still scared by those illustrations to this day, scary stories to tell in the dark.

One to get your kids when you feel like it's time for them to really get pushed to their

limits of childhood, embracing a fear.

I think kids like being scared, they like being scared within a particular degree because

it's fun, it's thrilling, it's exciting, even when you play with a little toddler, you

play hide and seek and you find them, they're like, they have a little bit of fear when

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