Precis of A tale of horror
In Tove Jansson’s classic children’s story “A Tale of Horror”, the next-to-youngest whomper realizes, to his deep distress, that just imagining the Ghost Wagon has made it real, “waiting for the darkness to start rolling along”. The urge to create our own terrors is in us from childhood, and it becomes more irresistible as we grow older. Why, with all the things we’ve good reason to fear, do we bring into existence, from nothing but the shadows of our own minds, the things that go on to frighten us most?
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