In October 2004 Blog Seven was a blog about fear.[…]

A Final Fright
“In the shadow of the trees on the far side of the clearing something was moving. It was gliding very slowly Northward. At a first glance you might have mistaken it for smoke, for it was grey and you could see things through it. […]

dangerously high levels of spookiness[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER 25 SCARIEST THINGS

1. Being bound to a table and experimented upon by a mad scientist
Yes, you read that right. That is, hands tied down, proven by mad science, the single scariest thing it is possible for the lobotomy enhanced human […]

fear of desire/fear of completion:
i was 8 or 9 when i learnt my dad was going to die: that he had parkinson’s disease, which wz incurable, and that he wz unlikely to live more than another ten years. i don’t actually remember being told[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
2: Being Sober For The Rest Of Your Life
Uh-oh. Check your hat in as you wander into Alcoholics Anonymous and sit in the corner watching the other boozer, losers and vodka users tell their litany of horrors. Sure[…]

Three days before the US Presidential election, the day after Osama Bin Laden released a new tape aimed at the American people with potentially huge polling consequences, the front page of the Daily Mail screams ‘VILLAGES HELD TO RANSOM’.[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
4. Castration
Oh, bollocks.
It is probably fairly clear at this point that the fear list jury was made up mostly of men. Freud would have been proud of this entry, which perhaps deserves to be taken psychological[…]

There’s a Matt Groening cartoon called “Kids Want To Know”, reproduced by Greil Marcus in Dead Elvis, in which one of the “Life In Hell” rabbits is glumly musing upon various difficult questions. “Which would you r[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
6. Being Buried Alive
I am a fear faddist. Generally there’s one thing which will worry me desperately, obsessively, for a few months and then suddenly fade from my thoughts – to be quickly replaced b[…]