Take a look around and observe your surroundings. Where are you right now? Are you sitting inside of a room? Is there anyone else with you? Are you all alone? Most sources indicate that a majority of people read tales of horror by themselves. Something about this genre and medium compel you to experience it in a quiet room, all alone. But why is this? Why subject yourself to fright in solitude? What compels you to purposely scare yourself, to fill your mind with visions of the grotesque and supernatural? Take a look around.