These tales make the reader feel terrifyingly alone and ask how much control humans have over their fate. The best horror stories force the reader to turn the pages with growing dread and prickling anxiety. The monster scares him, the villain’s powers and agenda scare him, and the characters’ own vulnerabilities scare him. In horror fiction and monster stories, the bottom line is that the reader will believe and be afraid. Photo by Rob Potter by Jessica Page Morrell The bottom line for all fiction is that the story is a lie the reader can believe in, with characters he comes to know and care about. Scare Tactics: 7 Tricks for Writing Terrifying Horror Fiction & Monster Stories Jessica Page Morrell gets down to brass tacks on how to successfully achieve fear and believability when crafting horror fiction and stories with monstrous antagonists.
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