A book I may need

[rinue]

"At the same time, we're fascinated with horror simply because it's exciting. Our morbid fascinations have an element of empathy: We want to feel (or imagine) the pain of others. But they also help us know ourselves, by letting us push aside the 'socially acceptable façade' so we can revel in our 'interior strangeness.'"

- from a Braniac review of Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck, by Eric G. Wilson (not yet released)