Horror Highway :-)

I am a huge fan of gothic/horror flicks. It’s not the blood and gore that appeals to me. In fact, I find that the less blood and gore a horror flick displays, the scarier it is. Why? Because I believe psychological fear is stronger than fear brought about by what we can see.

So how does my liking the horror genre relate to INFP/ADHD career matters? Well, ten years ago, while still in University, I took a mandatory English course. In one assignment, we were required to write a short story that begun with the words: "The night was impenetrably dark." I called my short story Horror Highway.

Ten years down the line, I came across a quote that I feel explains the real reason why I like horrors and, that gave me some insight as to why I wrote Horror Highway. Heather Anne Wozniak in Sites of Disturbance: The Gothic in Electronic Literature writes that: "...the gothic expresses the anxieties of the particular cultural moment in which it is produced...."

Reading Horror Highway ten years down the road, I believe that I was expressing anxiety regarding my future career. At the time of writing the story, I already knew that I wanted to pursue a career in writing. Yet there I was, stuck in University, getting a degree in International Business Administration!

Horror Highway is about dead-ends and going round in circles. For some people, that doesn’t sound like good material for a horror masterpiece. But for an INFP (with maybe some ADD tendencies!), being stuck doing the same uninteresting thing over and over again is the scariest scenario; a definite Horror Highway!