Two kinds of haunting

I'd say on the whole that I dislike adrenaline, yet I love rollercoasters and haunted houses.

I think Ann Radcliffe would be helpful here. You know the bit:

“Terror and Horror are so far opposite that the first expands the soul, and awakens the faculties to a high degree of life; the other contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates them.”

Terror, then, in the literary or recreational sense, as the state of unbearable alarm at what is about to happen, and horror as the mind-stopping rejection of what actually is happening.

Let's keep that in mind.

(Spoilers for this year's local haunted house attraction)

( Cut for nyctophobia, claustrophobia, and just generally realizing that this was a very bad idea )

After that there was quite a bit of wandering about in the open air gaping and staring with fixed horror at the stars. Then we went for a pint. We chose a pub mostly remarkable for being largely empty and extremely well-lit.

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