THE FEAR
I was reminded of this story the other night when talk came to helicopters. Working with students you often hear exaggerated drug stories. And with drug stories comes mention of THE FEAR. The definite article often suggests that the item in […]

INSECTS WHICH COME TO BITS
aged c.3-16 i did not have that much in common with moors murderer ian brady that i can think of, except this: a morbid terror of daddy-long-legses – and i got over mine, b4 you all rush off to the police… neve[…]

One of my top 3 fears?
…has to be asphyxiation (a very tricky one to spell as well). However, this isn’t really a run of the mill kind of suffocation-style death. Ever since I was capable of cognitive thought I used to have this really[…]

FEAR ADDENDA: the disappearance of the number nine!!
(sorry foax i couldn’t get to the blog to check if 9 wz already up and now the blogger dashboard is all changed round didn’t check here either – fear of googlism innit)[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
8. SEEING THE PARENTS “AT IT”.
The scariest stuff is ALWAYS unexpected. You didn’t EXPECT that vampire would ambush you from behind the curtains, did you?? You didn’t EXPECT to look in the[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
9. Frayed Wires
I got electrocuted the day before my wedding. My rabbits had got behind the fridge and had a good old chew – suspecting this had happened I moved the fridge to check it out, and there it was[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
10. Threads
This is the only fictional work to get onto the list. Whether it should be so low overall is open to debate, but I genuinely think it’s the most frightening film I’ve ever seen – by a m[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
11. Being Stalked
I have never been stalked and I think it unlikely that I will be. But unless they’re a very, very famous celebrity I think anybody thinks it ‘won’t be them’. And yet week[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
12: Contracting Alzheimer’s Disease
Not any old disease. Alzheimer’s. One day you are a bit forgetful. One day you cannot quite get your head around numbers. Too tired to read, even though you know it[…]

One of the favoured pastimes of a childhood family holiday (too old to be tucked up in bed early, too young for ten-franc bottles of wine and pursuing Dutch girls), was to round up a group of other kids, grab a load of torches and set out into the se[…]