Stephen King mentions Richard Eberhart, “The Groundhog,” written in 1936, in his book and great resource Danse Macabre. Children look at death as a poet looks at it with experimentation.
"Horror movies are not sophisticated, and because they are not, they allow us to regain our childish perspective on death - perhaps not such a bad thing...Children see more intensely. The greens of lawns are, to the child's eye the color of lost emeralds... the blue of the winter sky is as sharp as an icepick, the white of new snow is a dream blast of energy. And black is much blacker. Much blacker indeed." (king 194)
