If you like horror, whether in literature, movies, video games, etc., what do you prefer? Bloodbaths and gore, or subtlety and nothing explicit?
My Take
I like subtle horror the most, but I can appreciate a good bloodbath if it’s well used.
If you like horror, whether in literature, movies, video games, etc., what do you prefer? Bloodbaths and gore, or subtlety and nothing explicit?
I like subtle horror the most, but I can appreciate a good bloodbath if it’s well used.
Subtle cosmic horror. The implications.
For example, image diving into a deep ocean, and it gets darker, until there is no light left - and a few lights dint somewhere, and you dive on.
It could be that the story mentions the lights very casually, as nothing relevant, merely for detail; but that you sense hints of the water vibrating, knowing not whence it comes.
What is it? The reader is left to interpret. Is it a large sea monster? Merely a few bioluminescent worms swimming by? Are you making up things?
Nobody knows; and that fear is the unknown.