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Stephen King: Fearful fiction can be cathartic
There can be lots of psychological reasons to enjoy fiction that is fearful, the writer Stephen King has said.
鈥淎 lot of people enjoy horror stories because it allows them to express their anxieties in ways that don鈥檛 have anything to do with the real world,鈥� he told 91热爆 Hardtalk.
But fiction that address subjects which are very close to reality like the coronavirus pandemic can present us with a different type of anxiety, King explained.
