**Links to**: [[Xpectator]], [[Sublime]], [[Horacio Quiroga]], [[Kafka]], [[Faulkner]], [[Balzac]], [[E .T. A. Hoffman]], [[Rosemary's Baby]], [[The Exorcist]], [[The Shining]], [[Amparo Davila]], [[Maupassant]], [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[Junji Ito]], [[Jan Švankmajer]], [[David Cronenberg]], [[The Weird and the Eerie]], etc. >The astonishment bordering on terror, the horror and the awesome shudder, […] is—if the spectator knows that he/she is _in safety_—not actual fear, but only a temptation to _get involved in_ it [_uns darauf einlassen_] by means of the imagination, in order to feel the power of that very faculty, […]. Kant, 5: 269, quoted in Otabe 2020 (emphasis by Otabe). In thinking about this effect as reframed by [[05 Prediction]], one may argue for a clash of models: the model of intuitive aversion to that which horrifies, and the explorative model which nevertheless gets caught up in the possibility to cross a new threshold and seek novelty.