Human Condition In Stephen King's Why We Crave Horror

Have you ever thought about why a large majority of people take pleasure in watching horror movies albeit knowing the fright that comes with it? Many individuals also partake in spine-chilling rides in amusement parks. Some may even decide to be daring and visit a haunted house. In short, it is a part of the “Human Condition” as Stephen King refers in “Why We Crave Horror.” Stephen King claims that a huge majority of people crave such fearsome subjects in order to face our fears, re-establish our sense of normality, and to experience an uncanny sort of fun.
Us humans often enjoy proving that we have the strength to face something, and our fears are one of them. Stephen King’s short story, “Strawberry Spring” tackles this topic . His first reason, which is to “show that we are not afraid” of facing our fears (King, “Why We Crave” 1) involves this fear of being

King states that we get to experience the “fun [that] comes from seeing others menaced” (King, “Why We Crave” 2). Although a person’s life was taken in “Strawberry Spring”, we want to know who will die next and maybe why. Someone dying or getting hurt in the horror genre delves us deeper into the story. As King mentions in “Why We Crave”, we “become children again, seeing things in pure black and whites” (2). We don’t have to think about what the murderer’s past was, or what he did to turn into a bloodthirsty monster. The good and the evil is what we are given and that is all we have to put into our head. Where there’s death, there will be rumors and many jokes about it. Watching a horror film is like laughing at a “sick joke” (3). The students in “Strawberry Spring” slightly enjoyed the murders, which gave them a new topic to gossip and make rumors about. The drama that came with the terror excited them, like how we enjoy someone getting killed in a story or