Slender Man, Slender Man, All the children try to run. Slender Man, Slender Man To him it's part of the fun. Stephen King claims that people go see horror movies, to have fun which is similar to how slender man has fun with children.Stephen King rightly claims that humans crave horror to face our fears, experience a peculiar sort of fun, and to re-establish our feelings of normalcy. Humans crave horror in order to face our fears. Similarly to feel thrilled. Namely “a junior named John Dancey” found a “dead girl lying in a shadowy corner of the Animal Science parking lot”(King, “Strawberry Spring” 1). Gale Cerman’s death is horrific! “Frantic fear” of death, and this shocking description really is “daring [our] nightmares” (King, “Why We Crave” 1). Strawberry Spring” achieves Stephen King’s claim that one reason we watch and read horror is to show “that we are not afraid” (1). …show more content…
Uncommonly, King suggests that “if we are all insane, then sanity becomes a matter of degree” (2), and he points out that part of “the insanity of man” is the need to exercise these often repressed “emotional muscles.”Those of us on the less insane side of the spectrum still relish the exhilaration, drama and mystery of horror and horrific tales; such tales become amusing, akin to enjoying sick jokes (King, “Why We Crave”