13 Horror Stories 13 Urban Legends
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Horror is...Horror is always a pleasure, thank you... Reading horror becomes like an addiction after a while. The fear that course through the readers' veins makes them hunger for more. It makes them feel good. That hunger for more horror is driven by one fear. The fear that the story will show them that their greatest fear has become true. That their greatest fear had become alive through the story and is grabbing them around the throat from the pages. That is where the horror writer is in his element. He will go into the darkest places of the soul, the most unaccesible corners of the mind. There he will study the fear of the reader and come back and tell him all about it. Or he will show his own fears to the reader in full dark technicolor. The horror writer has his own fears, but he is not facing it alone, he takes the reader with him onto the dark recesses of his mind...to use as bait. To do this, the horror writer will break all rules. Young, old, babies, frail old ladies - all will be killed in the most horrible possible way. No matter how much you have come to love a character, the horror writer will have her killed. The horror writer is a rule breaker and is not concerned with happy endings or warm feelings - his job is to scare you. In the horror story nothing is safe or secure or sacred. Fuzzy housepets suddenly changes into horrible flesh eating monsters, the loving husband suddenly sharpens his axe to kill off his whole family, birds suddenly rain down on you from the sky to eat your eyes out. And as the reader is shown his deepest, most secret fear becoming true, he will think, no this is only a story and things like this can never happen in real life. ...or can it? |
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