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RE: Writing competition - Competition Closed - winner announced shortly
Maybe it's your revulsion to them that makes them a good horror trope, if thats that the authors intention was.
Maybe it's your revulsion to them that makes them a good horror trope, if thats that the authors intention was.
True. There's that. Also, I once dreamed I found my dad in the attic, playing mad scientist, reanimating his dead father (Grandpa!!) -- and then there's that story "The Monkey's Paw," and the knock at the door. Horror is awesome, but the walking dead with maggots dropping from their rotted flesh, that's just gross. The most horrifying horror, to me, is "The Shining," in which a trusted and loved husband gradually descends into madness. Because that really happens. The ghosts, the rivers of blood, meh. The husband: TERRIFYING.