5:30 a.m.

I forgot to add one book into my little horror blog post a couple hours back. Parasite Rex is a nonfiction work that compiles a list of some of the most bizarre parasites currently known to science. I dealt with this book briefly in one of my classes at Uni, but tracked down a copy for myself afterward out of sheer morbid fascination.

I am a Biology major. And parasites terrify me.

Two truths, no lie. Are you really surprised? Certain STDs actually make you want to have sex more to perpetuate the spread. How is that not terrifying?

10:30 p.m.

You know how some people have an obsession with roller coasters, or skydiving, or cliff jumping? I have an obsession with scary books. Unfortunately, after what I put myself through over the years, few books qualify as "scary."

Has anyone ever read It, by Stephen King?I did, when I was 12. It scared me so much that I couldn't sleep, so I just kept reading, and ended up staying awake for three days straight finishing it. I can honestly say to this day that is one of the most terrifying things that I have ever read. I don't know why exactly. Perhaps it is my fear of clowns, or my vivid imagination that to this day makes me afraid of the monster under the bed, but that that book struck a chord in me. I'm not actually a huge fan of Stephen King, especially since none of his books have ever scared me as much as this one did. I liked this one so much I tracked down a first edition hardcover, and I have a semi serious goal of getting it signed one day.


Horror movies have never scared me either, but suspense movies will keep me up forever. I can handle gore, and boogiemen jumping out at me, but if I have to wait?

I'd better have a movie buddy.