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Colton Scrivener is a behavioral scientist with a PhD in comparative human development.

And his line of study was the evolutionary root of why we're drawn to dark and scary stuff.

In his new book, he has a chance to share what he's learned about those who are morbidly curious.

That's the title of the book. It's also a term of art for the thing he's explaining. Being morbidly curious. That's the title of the book. It's also a term of art for the thing he's

explaining. Being morbidly curious is to have that impulse to look at the car wreck or an open

casket. If you really love gory video games or slasher films, you fit somewhere in the

category. And Scriber fits in there too.

His interest started early.

I liked spooky things as a kid.

Goose bumps, encouraged the coward of dog.

But I think my first real experience was something that really scared me was with Resident Evil.

Bizarre murder cases have recently occurred in Raccoon City.

I was probably five or six and found a copy of it and was playing it.

And this is like the original Resident Evil one where you're in the mansion.

Stop it. Don't open that door.

But Chris is.

There's dogs and birds that are infected and zombies and fixed third person point of view that

gave you very little control of what you could see.

What is it?

Watch out.

It's a monster!

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