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What we’ve been talking about As the Edinburgh Horror Con prepares to unleash its terrifying wares onto the EICC, we wondered about the everyday things and stuff and bits that terrify us mere mortals. For those with a fear of anything from dogs to armadillos, and acne to heights, time to hide behind a metaphorical sofa
Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical roulette curves of the
variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. I am absolutely terrified of them and, to this day, cannot fathom why.
They do, however, oft bring to mind this Isaac Newton quote: ‘spy I some subtle daemon in
the mathematics, perchance?’
I have an irrational fear of
aquariums, not the ones you get in people’s houses but big- scale tourist attraction-type aquariums. I think it’s the idea
of the glass cracking and all those fish flapping around on
the floor in the dark
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Adult acne
A ventriloquist dummy. After years of therapy I had just about managed to temper my childhood fear which was set off by seeing Dead At Night with Michael Redgrave being possessed by the
spirit of ‘Hugo’. And then Derren Brown goes and makes a guy believe he’s an actual ventriloquist dummy
that’s about to be locked in a suitcase
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For sheer speed of scurry and hardness of shell, armadillos
scare the bejesus out
of me. Happily, the Edinburgh headcount
is minimal.
Childbirth
Heights. Not being high up
like in a plane or a skyscraper or anything that’s
sealed up. It’s the outside heights:
cliff edges,
rooftops, things where there is nothing to either stop a freak gust
of wind or an
irrational twitch to send me hurtling to my death
Dogs and unfulfilled potential. A dog tried to bite me when I was a
kid, and ever since, I’ve really been dog-averse. But I am more scared by unfulfilled potential, so for me, the
ultimate Eldritch Horror is a dog that hasn’t lived up to its early promise.