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So much of life is a haunting. We feel the tendrils of our past clinging to us as we navigate our lives. Memories exist on another plane but travel with us, influencing the way we see and experience.

About ten years ago, I bought a plant and immediately almost killed it. I’m not much of a green thumb, and I didn’t think about what would happen if I bought a plant and then left it in the car while I ran errands for an hour. What happened is that it got fried into near oblivion.

The fascinating thing about horror stories (including ghost stories and tales of psychological terror, like classics “The Yellow Wallpaper” and” The Lottery”) is the way these stories build mood. Let's explore what we can learn from horror writers.