The word creepy is used to describe many things. Do you think that there is a unifying, there's a commonality to the ways that when we like in modern parlors? Okay. Here's my shot at talking about the commonality. I think creepiness is the sense that something is either dangerous, like threatening or off-putting in some way or just off - but without knowing exactly what the source of that is. Once this, you have a definite sense of the source of the thing, then it's not creepy anymore. It's something else.

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