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It is no doubt that the main function of language is for communication. Communication consists of literal and nonliteral interactions. For nonliteral interactions, figurative expressions are used a lot for the better understanding of successful communication. Recently, it is noticed that cognitive linguistics has been concerned with metaphoric notions. This paper aims to make a cognitive analysis of the emotional attitude of 'fear' from a metaphorical conceptualization. For this study, the basic idea related to 'fear' was selected from the horror story. The findings show the followings: 1) Fear metaphors are related to human beings, 2) non-human creatures are introduced to represent humanistic attitude and emotions. Therefore, it is said that the fear metaphor is of experiential basis, because it is motivated by language users' experiences and knowledge about their world.