User blog comment:MrDupin/Rant about 'Monster-Pastas'/@comment-25755652-20150514181424

I've always found that the scariest stories (at least for me) are when characters find out that they are either unknowingly a monster, or related to someone who is a monster. I guess it is the personal factor of it all. It is the idea that anyone, even yourself, could be threatening to someone else. It is always deeply unsettling when you have a character who is good for the majority of a piece get pushed off the deep end. Think Carie for example. For the majority of the book you felt sorry for her until she started going crazy and murdering everyone in her path. But then again, I am a big fan of psychological thrillers because scary stories might make you scared for a day, but a psychological thriller will give you something to think about for life.