Blog: Best Books About Nothing

Written on 22 March 2012.

SAY IT THREE TIMES is a strange little novel (even I, its mother, can admit that). When i wrote it, I had Disney World's "Alien Encounter" (which, apparently doesn't exist anymore) in mind. In the Alien Encounter attraction, attendees are placed in a dark room and subjected to a battery of scary stimuli - simulated heavy breathing, blasts of hot air, bumps against their seat, etc. Nothing bad actually happens and, yet, the attraction was terrifying. Referred to as "theater of the mind," the terror is created entirely from the suggestion of danger, rather than actual danger.