Stephen King and Carina Chocano are both horror authors who address the mental disorders of people today. Stephen King, author of "Why We Crave Horror Movies" argues that people are mentally ill because they choose to watch horror movies even though they know they will be scared. The author of "How Tabloid Trainwrecks Are Reinventing Gothic Literature", Carina Chocano, argues that celebrities of this time are becoming similar to characters in Gothic literature to increase their fame value. Both of these pieces illustrate that people crave the feeling of darkness and terror. King and Chocano both argue, through the use of examples, that people today use fear as a source of entertainment and that it is also a physiological and social purpose of the gothic horror genre. In both pieces, “ Why We Crave Horror Movies ” and “How Tabloid Castaways Are Reinventing Gothic Literature” psychological evidence is used to describe the Gothic genre as affecting an individual's health. Stephen King writes in his piece on individual mental health: "[Fear] drives us to put aside our more civilized and adult propensity for analysis and become children again..." (paragraph 7, "Why we want horror movies") The author argues that people want the adrenaline and mentality of when they were kids watching horror movies. This affects an individual's mental health because they get scared and force themselves to watch scary movies to be put in a different mood as if they were a child again. People crave the feeling of being a child again because they want to return to the carefree, worry-free and simple, child-like life. They want to be freed from the stresses of work and life, even if freedom is only... middle of paper... rehearsals to expose the ridiculousness of people today for the purpose of entertainment. The authors of “Why We Crave Horror Movies” and “How Tabloid Shipwrecks Are Reinventing Gothic Literature,” Stephen King and Carina Chocano, have both written pieces on Gothic literature. King's piece focuses on the mental illness of those who love horror films because they choose to watch them even though they know they will be afraid. Meanwhile, Chocano writes about celebrities in the media who use collapses and accidents as a means of publicity and how they imitate characters from gothic literature. Through the use of examples, King and Chocano create their arguments regarding the physiological and social purpose of the gothic-horror genre, showing that people today use fear as a source of entertainment and show that they crave the feeling of darkness and terror..