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June's Exhumed Essay

June's Exhumed Essay

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Jun 24, 2025
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June's Exhumed Essay
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With school out and kids free to run amok, summer seems like an appropriate time for me to unlock what I thought would be a controversial essay when I wrote it: Your Kids Don’t Need to Be Protected from Fear.

Your kids don't need to be protected from fear

Coltan Scrivner
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April 27, 2023
Your kids don't need to be protected from fear

A lot of people ask me how I got into horror. For most people, their introduction to horror was a movie — Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and The Thing are common answers. I can’t remember my first horror movie, though I think it might have been

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In my new book, Morbidly Curious, I have a whole chapter on how kids are morbidly curious—perhaps more than adults. I open the chapter with a story…

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