Finally, for the golfer on your list, there's "Breaking the Slump," by Jimmy Roberts, the NBC Sports broadcaster, which is a surprisingly intimate look at how the world's best golfers handle the inevitable, if terrifying, breakdowns in their ability to play the game.
"It was terrifying to watch the uncanny ability of the Moorish infantry to exploit the slightest fold in the ground which could be used for cover, and to make themselves invisible," a volunteer later recalled.
When it comes to climate change the human ability to ignore evidence is as terrifying as the facts themselves.
Listening to the interview again, I am more struck than previously by her understanding that the Taliban's power comes from their ability to terrify those who oppose them.
Quentin Crisp said: 'Charisma is the ability to influence without logic', which is terrifying".
Given the ultra-contemporary world of the early part of the novel, the scenes in Dorset, where the author herself lives, seem parochial, but this does not lessen Walters's ability to use horror-movie logic to terrifying effect.
His own generation has broken loose from her ability to terrify.
The downside is that The Omen loses its ability to terrify if you've just had half an hour on the phone with Uncle Brian.
