We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. – Stephen King
The 3 types of terror are
The Gross-out:
the sight of a severed head
tumbling
down
a flight of stairs,
it’s when the lights go out
and something green
and slimy
splatters
against your arm.
Then there’s The Horror:
the unnatural,
spiders
the size of bears,
the dead waking up
and walking around,
it’s when the lights go out
and something with claws
grabs you
by the arm.
And the last
and worse one –
Terror.
When you come home
and notice everything
you own
had been taken away
and replaced
by an exact substitute.
Terror.
It’s when
the lights
go out
and you feel
something
behind you,
you hear it,
you feel
its breath
against your
ear,
but when you turn around,
there’s nothing there.
Think about that.
In the dark.
A scary voice.
Three Types Of Terror (A Children’s Campfire Story) is really a found poem.
Many prospective readers are horrified by the idea of found poems.
Boo!
Source: Three Types Of Terror. A Stephen King quote about horror.