Posted on 10/1/2021

Photo by Tobias Tullius and Drew Tilk on Unsplash (composite by Christopher Hooker) Do you enjoy the suspense and dread of a Stephen King book? Or the growing fear in a classic horror film like The Innocents? These films, and some of the best horror films ever, employ a technique called ‘Hesitancy’. It extrapolates the same kind of journey that you might take if you began to see evidence of a ghost but questioned whether you were experiencing a real event or hallucinating. At first, you might dismiss the book falling off the shelf, or the door slamming with no open windows, or even a shadow m ... read more