I'm a total wuss about scary stuff. I was creeped out by Coraline, a book that is loved by children the world over. I am still creeped out by a Lovecraft story I read in my teens. (If there is nameless dreadful horror, it should be thoroughly destroyed by the end of the story, not still lurking out there in the woods, dammit!) I have a friend who claimed permanent hearing loss after sitting next to me at Alien. Also, the chest-bursting scene replayed itself in technicolor every time I closed my eyes for the next two days.

Entertainment should be enjoyable. There's nothing wrong with skipping stuff that makes you uncomfortable. At the store, people sometimes try to convince me to read something scary. I just tell them nope, I find real life plenty scary, and I read to get away from that!