Zombie fears, part deux
I can't watch zombie movies. They give me nightmares. But everybody told me that I had to read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" because it's so clever, (It really is, I chuckled plenty.) and I'm such a huge Jane Austen fan and have such an irreverent sense of humor. So I started reading it because I figured, how bad can it be?
Well, it turns out that setting the action in my head is so much worse and graphic because I incorporate what I really fear about zombies. Like my kids being hurt or being sent away from my family because I've been nipped by the walking dead. I read a few measly chapters and had nothing but zombie nightmares last night. To the point that I woke up at 4 a.m. crying like a tiny, tiny girl.
I gave the book to a co-worker just to get it out of my house.
AND ON THAT NOTE....
I have a well-established fear of clowns. It's called coulrophobia. It's a real fear. Look it up.
So someone sent me a still photo close-up of a clown, because haha, Molly's afraid of clowns. Hilarious.
When I didn't respond, they wrote back, "Oh come on, it's a zombie clown, it's like two of your greatest fears combined."
So I looked at the photo again and realized it was indeed a zombie clown, complete with red nasty eyes, smeared, sinister skull-like make-up and droopy mouth. And I didn't notice. Why? Because to me, that's how all clowns look.
Analyze my emotional health at will
Well, it turns out that setting the action in my head is so much worse and graphic because I incorporate what I really fear about zombies. Like my kids being hurt or being sent away from my family because I've been nipped by the walking dead. I read a few measly chapters and had nothing but zombie nightmares last night. To the point that I woke up at 4 a.m. crying like a tiny, tiny girl.
I gave the book to a co-worker just to get it out of my house.
AND ON THAT NOTE....
I have a well-established fear of clowns. It's called coulrophobia. It's a real fear. Look it up.
So someone sent me a still photo close-up of a clown, because haha, Molly's afraid of clowns. Hilarious.
When I didn't respond, they wrote back, "Oh come on, it's a zombie clown, it's like two of your greatest fears combined."
So I looked at the photo again and realized it was indeed a zombie clown, complete with red nasty eyes, smeared, sinister skull-like make-up and droopy mouth. And I didn't notice. Why? Because to me, that's how all clowns look.
Analyze my emotional health at will
Comments
Thanks for the great post! Can't wait for Nice Girls Don't Date Dead Men!!!! I am counting the days until it is released!!!
This post is timely because tonight I'm taking my son to the circus. Hopefully I can be brave for him. :)
Scary shiz.
Especially the zombie clowns.
FYI- Scariest clown moment for me was when we had a lock-in at church and realized the pastor had arranged for "clown communion." Communion presented by clowns. I kid you not.
I mean what sinister thoughts are they trying to hide beneath those painted on faces... CREEPY! Give me Zombies any day.
-Tom Gallier
I'm glad to know that I'm not the only one.
The Jen of the infamous "Jen and Ed"
Having the visuals right there such as in a movie is another thing entirely. I am blissfully unaware of what Aragog or Shelob look like from the movies. Blissfully unaware.
And why is it, when you tell people you have a thing about a thing (my thing for spiders, your thing about clown and zombies) they insist on telling you horror stories about their experiences with said thing? Cruel and unusual punishment that is.
-Which is when Shub-Niggurath was summoned into this world and the entire congregation went insane.