After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.
Stephen KingTerror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. Itโs when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around thereโs nothing there.
Stephen KingMy feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.
Stephen King