No one research fear that can compare with Margee Kerr. A sociologist who moonlights at among America’s scariest and most well-known haunted houses, she has seen grown males have fun, cry, and press their loved ones aside as they run away in terror. And she’s held careful notes on what sets off these responses and just why.

Fear is a general human knowledge, but do we really understand it? If we’re so terrified of monsters and serial killers, why perform we flock to the theaters to find out them? Why do people avoid considering about Scream about loss of life, but jump out of planes and swim with sharks? For Kerr, there is only one way to find out.

In this eye-opening, adventurous book, she takes us on a tour of the world’s scariest experiences: into an abandoned jail long at night, hanging with a cord from the best tower in the Western hemisphere, and deep into Japan’s mysterious “suicide forest.” She even continues on a ghost hunt with a group of paranormal adventurers. Along the way, Kerr shows us the unexpected science from the most recent research of fear-what it means, how it operates, and what it can do for us. Full of amusing science and the thrills of an excellent ghost tale, this audiobook can make you think, laugh-and scream.