Why Do People Like Horror with Peter Laws

from How to Write Good · host Daniel Poppie

Author Peter Laws joins me on this episode of How to Write Good, and we discuss why people enjoy getting scared (which really doesn't make much sense to me at all).Find out more about Peter on his website, www.peterlaws.co.uk. You can also follow him on Twitter @peterlaws or check out his book that came out yesterday, "The Frighteners: Why We Love Monsters, Ghosts, Death, and Gore."Stay in touch with me at my website at www.danielpoppie.com.

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