When you say "let's go to the circus" you expect clowns, elephants and fun. That's not the case for a circus making a stop in Texas this month. It's about blood, scares and gruesomeness.
I like a bit of spookiness and mystery, but you're not gonna catch me sitting down to a Saw marathon while eating cookies made to look like human fingers.
Perhaps part of it was realizing that whenever I walked outside, the chance that I would be confronted by a hungry zombie mob was generally a small one.