ORLANDO, Fla. - When I told my fellow Halloween Horror Nights attendees that I'd never visited a haunted house before, they recoiled in mild panic. Why was I, an easily frightened amateur, willfully subjecting myself to a medley of gory visuals and jump scares? I figure someone has to blaze the trail for the scaredy cat community. It might as well be me.To be clear, I love horror movies. They're not real, and I can close my eyes to escape them. Not so at a haunted house - and especially not at the annual fall event hosted by Universal Studios in Orlando, Fla.