FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
No.20: Being On A Fairground Ride And Noticing Bits Falling Off
Or sundry experiences to that effect. The point of many fairground rides is to scare us. To scare us safely one might add, but if they were not dangero[…]

I have what I imagine is about an average amount of fear of crocodiles, heights and so on, but what I have always found much the most terrifying thing to imagine is being stuck in a narrow tunnel (and I am guessing it didn’t make the top 25, so[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARY THINGS
No.21: Heights
Not everyone is scared of heights. I wasn’t. I remember scampering about on some scaffolding at the top of Chartres Cathedral on a school trip: I didn’t play chicken like some of the other[…]

Secrets of the Doomsday Clock!: i.e. who at the Atomic Energy Bulletin gets to move it forward and back. Sadly it seems that an editor cannot move the clock to ONE TO MIDNIGHT just because they thought it would be a funny idea in the pub. The clock &[…]

The fear of being helpless in the face of your own rapidly approaching demise is already becoming a recurring theme of this list. Usually though, there’s a malicious influence involved somewhere, a giant maneating lizard or an axe murderer, for[…]

THE FREAKY TRIGGER TOP 25 SCARIEST THINGS
No.23: Floating Alone In Space
(Note to readers: A technical hitch has arisen with this list, which was lovingly compiled in the pub by a team of FT operatives. My wife Isabel threw the list in the bin, assum[…]

Inhabitants fled in panic.: “We were so happy when we heard we had escaped an alien invasion.”[…]

FREAKY TRIGGER Top 25 Scariest Things
No.24: Crocodiles
Ending up as something’s lunch is an unpleasant prospect in whatever case, but crocodiles are scarier than cannibals, because being eaten alive is where the real horror lies. In a film whe[…]

Further to Tom’s note about horror comics. Here is Stephen Grant on why horror comics are not scary (and therefore why horror comics are not horror comics at all.)[…]

Freaky Trigger Top 25 Scariest Things
no. 25: Spiders
I see no dishonour in confessing to a fear of spiders. But let’s get this in proportion: I’m no arachnophobe, and am happy to take on the gentleman’s burden of deporting 8-legged[…]