Answer:
The excerpt presented allows readers to approach a “forbidden door".
Explanation:
In "Danse Macabre", Stephen King describes how society influences the horror genre. Be it in books, comics, films, etc. He explores the history of the genre and how real life situations are the consequence of that history.
In this case, King is pointing us to a "forbidden door". 
"(...) he peered into the darkness."
"(...) he could resolve this mystery. He swung his legs to the floor with conviction."
The character is going into the darnkess to solve that mistery. He is going to cross that "forbidden door".
 
        
                    
             
        
        
        
Positive and Negative Connotations. ... For example, the words childish, childlike and youthful have the same denotative but different connotative meanings. Childish and childlike have a negative connotation as they refer to immature behavior of a person. Whereas, youthful implies that a person is lively and energetic.
        
             
        
        
        
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Acceptance Speech by Elie Wiesel I embrace the honor you have chosen to bestow upon me with a deep sense of modesty. It makes me happy because I can tell that this honor belongs to all the survivors and their children, and through them, to the Jewish people, whose fate I have always identified.
 
        
             
        
        
        
Answer:
it's either they heard or they stopped