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

[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

I've no problem with rats at all, though I'd be reluctant to share home with any as they're so good at what they do. They tend to give almost as good as they get with the Tribe, too; Lilith in particular has come home with some nasty bites.

Conventional horrors - rats, snakes, arthropods of whatever number of legs; claustrophobia, agoraphobia, &c… - have never had much effect on me, I seem to have needed events with emotional, visceral, impact. Though I did hide behind my sister when One dealt with the Zarbis, and I never actually saw a Rill; hey! I was seven at the time :)