Horror isn't only about ghosts or monsters. For example, paranormal romance seems the antithesis of horror. Once you have a sexy, fun vampire who is sweet, and you have a happy ending, it's not horror.
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Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
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