The story Fear stuck with me the most from this reading.
The main character in this story seems to be stuck in a horror movie. Progressively more strange, shocking and some just outright scary things keep occurring. And this guy is walking around going "But where is fear?" I can only imagine his everyday life is so wild that these occurrences are actually not at all unusual.
(Image information: "Fear of the Dark" by stuant63 is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0)
He is sent to cook in a cemetary and a hand rises from a grave. No big deal.
He then goes to a house, is almost strangled but again - that's fine, happens all the time!
At that house, he gets a bracelet, is accused of thievery, but that's fine too. Then he gets on a boat and beats up a sea monster. That's just your normal Tuesday night, right?
After that he wants to have a bit of a rest. So he's going to try to nap in this garden but instead there are pigeons turning into women. And those women are the strangler, the sea monster and maybe the owner of the hand in the grave. And they want him to move in! This is not at all shocking and totally what he expected to happen at this point in his life. But alas - he still hasn't found fear so he can't move in. Sorry ladies.
Logically he goes to town - birds land on him so now he is king. Except the king usually ends up dead in the morning. Obviously if you just burn the coffin you won't be dead. That problem solved, he finally gets a good nap. His new wife the queen is like dang, I did not expected to be married this morning, let's have soup.
What finally scares this guy? A bird coming out of the soup was so surprising he was startled. But it's good, he moved his mom into the palace and lived happily ever after. And maybe smashed all the soup pot lids.
Story source: Forty-four Turkish Fairy Tales by Ignacz Kunos, with illustrations by Willy Pogany (1913).
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