Are there any articles on this?

This question is fodder for those who aspire to write horror, as I dabble at in the summer when I am already feeling lurid and escape from the environment of reality.

I find many novels and movies to lack credibility when people encounter something peculiar and strange.

How would people REALLY react to something like, say, there is an alien-like race of rat things, wicked and semi-intelligent, overtaking an isolated town in Newfoundland— or people who seem more like orks in some isolated place—or a terrible strain of Tcho-Tcho inhabiting apartment blocs in the inner city—or something of the X-Files nature exists subtly and people try not to notice it—

Something that may or may not have apocalyptic consequence and bigger than what is comfortable to know about—but still fairly small and little known.

What do people REALLY do and how do they react?

Topics: psychology, people, reality, aliens, horror, X-Files, H.P. Lovecraft, Eldritch