Mom’s Favorite Reads eMagazine October 2018

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The Romance of Horror Estela Vazquez Perez

Webster defines horror as “painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay.” The allure of horror to the human psyche is more romantic than Webster’s dreadful definition. Horror is a familiar emotion that seems to have a key into the darkest corners of our minds, the base level of our souls, and our most dormant and secret beliefs. We are addicted to the adrenaline rush that horror pumps through our veins. Horror is a lover with the power to make our heart race or stop. Horror forces us to question our existence and explore the unknown with eyes pried your senses with a suspenseful trepidation opened by fear. of mounting fear that can either snuff Horror reminds us that our imagination or revive you. Horror manifest in many is more awake than we are. Horror lives forms, but the perception of horror is in the shadows of our psyche, thriving off universal. Horror’s masterpiece is to seize our fears and passions. Horror is a double a group of people while still invoking agent that can either alter or entertain individual fears. Horror lives because our lives. Horror, like love, makes us feel of mankind. Or is that mankind lives alive. Horror has the power to invoke because of horror? your emotions while inspiring new fears in you. Horror’s dark serenade seduces all Estela Vazquez Perez is an independent novelist who was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her talent is developing stories that span different genres and are infused with multiple sub-plots. She is an aspiring filmmaker, art lover, avid reader, traveller, and a lover of knowledge. She lives in San Francisco with her two beautiful children.

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