It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.
Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)
Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.
The first season, 'Supernatural' was very anthology-like. It was like a scary story of the week that the brothers would solve.
People like scary stories. There's a fascination with fear themes, and we want to face those things in a weird, subconscious way.
If I read a scary story in the newspaper, I find I'm haunted by it.
History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.
That’s how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we’d like to think we’ve grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It’s something you’d hoped was healed.
