When Thomas is four years old, he experiences the first foreshadowings of an adult awareness: His personality achieves the beginnings of structure; his experience becomes more coherent. This shift in consciousness is marked by his encounter with four new ideas:
1. The realization that he can die. And that he inevitably will die;
2. Religion, and the question of where everything came from;
3. The first glimmerings of sexuality, an odd giddiness when he looks at women;
4. Supernatural threats: ghosts, living skeletons, and related phenomena; Thomas develops an overpowering fear of the dark.
So begins Thomas' psychological and philosophical journey through fear and metaphysics. Told loosely in the form of a short story, Fear of the Dark follows Thomas from early childhood into college, and chronicles his attempts to understand reality. Thomas' experience of becoming lost on Halloween night and running home down a deserted ro . CLICK HERE TO START DOWNLOAD