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1. Childhood.
2. Anticipating old age.
3. 9 to 5 isn’t as exciting as zombies breaking down the door.
4. The existential horror of it all goes down better with the sugar of a plot.
5. Halloween fetish.
6. We heard it was easier to break into horror.
7. Mom and Dad and that thing they did that we weren’t supposed to see.
8. Mom and Dad gave us Stephen King books instead of a babysitter.
9. Vengeance fantasy on siblings…and all those other stupid kids who laughed at us at the academy.
10. Horror is closest to the truth of our existence and best expresses our worldview (when we aren’t entertaining at children’s birthday parties.)
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Actually, I took the Stephen King books, although they never tried to stop me. The rest is spot on.
Thanks! I had some fun with this and got my tongue stuck in my cheek so a bunch more are coming for different genres.