(1) There is more potential for changing and blending horror images to appear on a plain garden table currently with nothing on it – than one already with an actual blood-stained human skull on it.
(2) The Ominous Imagination – that most human beings presumably enjoy or suffer (depending on how they look at it) simply because of the human condition as perceived. Enjoy: diminishing this angst with spiritual Horror seen in both Horror and non-Horror art or reality (more effectively in non-Horror?) or Suffer: allowing the angst to accrete without intervention from the Higgs boson of Horror.
(3)…
Brainstorming… (12 Jan 12)
TO BE CONTINUED HERE?
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