Scope and Contents note Snider analyzes the effects of the frightening sounds and images of scary movies on the vulnerable imagination of the human mind. Through a collection of folkloric stories, Snider has divided these experiences into two categories. First, there is the category of perpetrators taking advantage of a vulnerable person's frightened state. Second she describes the occurrence of eerie, yet natural events. Snider also briefly discusses the power, whether weak or strong, of messages through the media...