I don't like horror. For movies, the most popular ones are either just gore fests (not scary, just gross) and people or things jumping out at you (being startled is not the same thing as being scared. I'm easily startled, and I don't like that either).
I have read a lot of Stephen King, and I agree, the man can tell a scary tale. Most of his stuff I like, while some I found particularly scary: Gerald's Game, and Misery both made me sorry I read them (in, I suppose, precisely the way they were designed to, since I don't like horror...), and I agree that which is scarier depends on what your fears are.
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