a question

[perlmonger]

This morning’s dead rat reminded me indirectly of something I’ve been thinking about posting for a while:

Do you have any sort of abiding horror that you read in a book, or saw in a film or on TV, as a child or adolescent? The sort of thing that haunted you for years and might still give you a queasy feeling years later?

Mine, and I only have the one, is the inside-out cat in Eye in the Sky: that made me feel physically ill with horror, and pity, and revulsion, when I first read it as a teenager. It still drags itself, somehow, impossibly, across the back of my mind today.

[ shudders ]

Comments

[spiritmoving.livejournal.com]

I saw the film "The Hypnotic Eye" as a child, and it gave me terrors for years. Storyline is about a disfigured woman who uses hypnosis to cause women to disfigure themselves. It starts with a woman putting her head in the flames of a gas stove, and the image of her on fire is the one that haunted me. I was afraid to sleep close to a wall, sure that somehow a hand could come out of the wall and set my head and face on fire.