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Matthias Klausen spends a lot of his time thinking about terrifying things. I have a fondness for

scary books. I really like that experience of being really

messed up by letters on a page. And I remember being really interested in scary stuff as a teenager,

but also being puzzled at why. Because I would read a Stephen King novel or watch a slash a movie and then feel compelled to sleep with the lights on for several nights and found myself asking, what the hell?

What's going on here?

What's going on when people voluntarily seek out things that frighten them?

It's kind of weird if you think about it from an evolutionary standpoint, right?

Like, running away from scary stuff makes sense.

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