Halloween 2012: What’s scary?
This Halloween, six top writers reminisce about the things that used to scare them — and what scares them now
Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 10:11 PM UTCLife Meg Wolitzer
Peter Trachtenberg
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Real-life body-snatchers
The McCarthy-era horror show has never stopped haunting the author, who sees the monsters on the news every day
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Entangled
Reading "Charlotte's Web" with the clarity of an adult inspires tears, smiles and tenderness.
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Peter Trachtenberg is the author of "The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning" and "7 Tattoos: A Memoir in the Flesh." His new book, "Another Insane Devotion: On the Love of Cats and Persons," is forthcoming in November. He lives in Pittsburgh, where he's an assistant professor of creative writing.
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