“Slender Man Stabbings: Why Are We so Fascinated by Horror? ( Video).” The Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor. Web. 16 Feb. 2015. <http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2014/0604/Slender-Man-stabbings-Why-are-we-so-fascinated-by-horror-video>.

This article is about how some 12 year old girls became infatuated with an online game called slender man. After meticulously planning, they killed one of their friends by stabbing them 19 times. The article brings up the topic and question, “Why do horror myths, cringe-inducing images of violence, and stories such as the Slender Man fascinate people so much, especially the young?” (Slender Man Stabbings). This was a very interesting article because it brings up very interesting topic of horror and how if can be such a strong piece, that can have people do things because of it. It directly relates to the article that we read, is the question about horror. The article said,” Why are horror audiences attracted by what, typically (in everyday life), should (and would) repel them? or how can horror audiences find pleasure in what by nature is distressful and unpleasant?”(Carroll,1). This was almost exactly the sam in the two articles. I am also very curious about this topic, because I find most horror to be unsightly to watch as well as to even think about in most cases.

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This article was about death and how it is related to modern culture as well. It talks about just death in general, and how it is becoming so normal in our culture. It talks about how popular t.v. shows now have common themes of death, and it has become something that is very normal for television. People now enjoy the feelings of fear and suspense and because of this they are becoming more and more popular in the things that we watch. We are going out of our way to see these kinds of things and it is something that we fear. There is something about it that we are drawn to, ” That is, encountering things such as ghosts or Desdemona’s massacre in “real life” would be rather upsetting rather than entertaining. And, of course what is disgusting on-screen or on the page is genuinely disgusting. It is something that we would ordinarily seek to avert”(Carroll,2). It is odd how our culture has changed to drastically and the article talks about that and how some of the most popular shows like Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead now focus on death and a horror aspect in them. This has changed the way that people perceive horror, and is almost desensitizing them to actual horrors in the world. I still become very afraid by zombies and some fictional horrors, but the aspect of death in any kind of sense does not have the same effect that it should. Watching people get shot or sliced in half in movies is not ‘scary’, but has become something I would call, ‘cool’.