In Fearing Fictionally, Walton brings up the example of Charles who thinks he felt fear while watching a movie about green slime, the conclusion that Walton reaches is that Charles was not actually fearful of the slime movie but rather fictionally fearful. He comes to this conclusion partly because of the unmotivated response that Charles has. However, what if Charles was already truly fearful of slime?
Walton gives the example of the person truly afraid of flying, refusing to fly. This is shown to be a true response to fear, since that person has done what they can to avoid it. Although, what of people putting themselves in situations in which they know the response will be fear? Does this not happen? I do not mean a dangerous situation as Walton brings up with the hikers or mountain climbers.

To make myself a bit more clear, lets use another example lets say Paul is terrified of ghosts, believes they may truly exist. However, Paul loves going to scary ghost movies and feeling afraid. Since Paul is scared of ghosts to begin with but has chosen to put himself in a situation where his fear of ghost would be aroused; is Paul then, not actually scared?

The question then becomes do some people not enjoy putting themselves in situations where they would feel fear?If so then when they do feel fear, is this not valid feeling of fear, even though its in response to something fictional?Like in the situation of Paul where an actual fear existed prior to response of something fictional?