But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes

I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.