Cool link. It could be compatible with Lovecraft by way of a curiosity verging on psychosis, as in Poe’s “Imp of the Perverse”.
Stumbled on this while culling last June’s starred items for final export from Google Reader. I kept waiting for someone (neuroscientist or punter) to raise Tale’s interesting question from upthread here, but it didn’t happen…
Fight or Flight: The Neuroscience of Survival Horror