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.
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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.
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 serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.
Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
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.
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.
I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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