My dear friend texted me about Scream: Chilling Adventures in the Science of Fear and I bought it right away on audible.com. It really is a topic right up my alley. I am big fan of haunted attractions and have spent seasons visiting more than 30 of them in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. I have written about fear a lot on here, and wondered why we like to be scared. I had hoped that this book would have some answers and it did. This was a good book, by a local gal, Margee Kerr who has had article published in the New York Times, and The Atlantic, among many other places about her studies of fear. She has worked with a local haunt here in the North Hills, The Scarehouse in Etna, which I have been to, but not in a few years. This book made me vow to go back this year. And to be very brave and try the infamous Basement. I have to admit that I never found The Scarehouse to be the scariest attraction, that does to Rich's Fright Farm, hands down. But again, I have yet to try the Basement and I haven't been to Scarehouse in at least two years. This fall I hope to visit RFF and Scarehouse and see how they compare.
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