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  2. Hedgehog's dilemma - Wikipedia

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    Multiple European hedgehogs. The hedgehog's dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is a metaphor about the challenges of human intimacy.It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs seek to move close to one another to share heat during cold weather.

  3. The Frightened Man - Wikipedia

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    The Frightened Man (also known as Rosselli and Son) is a 1952 British second feature [1] crime film directed and written by John Gilling and starring Dermot Walsh, Barbara Murray and Charles Victor. [2] An antiques dealer suffers a dramatic fall from grace.

  4. Horror fiction - Wikipedia

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    Horror is a genre of speculative fiction that is intended to disturb, frighten, or scare. Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon , in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length ... which shocks, or even frightens the ...

  5. List of creepypastas - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 February 2025. Online horror fiction Creepypastas are horror -related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare, frighten, or discomfort readers. The term "creepypasta" originates ...

  6. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Wikipedia

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    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is the second and final novel written by English author Anne Brontë.It was first published in 1848 under the pseudonym Acton Bell. Probably the most shocking of the Brontës' novels, it had an instant and phenomenal success, but after Anne's death her sister Charlotte prevented its re-publication in England until 1854.

  7. Elite theory - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy, political science and sociology, elite theory is a theory of the state that seeks to describe and explain power relations in society.In its contemporary form in the 21st century, elite theory posits that (1) power in larger societies, especially nation-states, is concentrated at the top in relatively small elites; (2) power "flows predominantly in a top-down direction from ...

  8. The League of Frightened Men - Wikipedia

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    Viva voce, chapter 2. Wolfe refers Archie to a conversation in the office that was transcribed by a stenographer hired while Archie was away: I nodded, glancing over the typewritten pages. "Andrew Hibbard. Instructor in psychology at Columbia. It was on October twentieth, a Saturday, that’s two weeks ago today." "Suppose you read it."

  9. Stage fright - Wikipedia

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    View of a performance on stage from the wings. Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia that may be aroused in an individual by the requirement to perform in front of an audience, real or imagined, whether actually or potentially (for example, when performing before a camera).