User blog comment:The Soul Fister/Does Creepy necessitate the supernatural/@comment-27838637-20180302033636

Most of my stories lacked a supernatural element (I deleted them months ago though), and alot of my WIP stories also lack a supernatural element. It's easy to dodge the need of a supernatural element when you write about serial killers, but I imagine it'd be much harder to do so when talking about an animal attack, as you described. However, 'horror' is largely subjective so I don't see why you couldn't write a story about a bear chasing you through the woods so long as you use enough horror elements effectively.