User blog comment:Bountybear/What makes something scary?/@comment-24304936-20150115141621

I like authors that can paint strokes broad and brilliant enough to force the worst parts of what they don't tell you out of your imagination. Quite often (if done well), these are some of the best scares.

Having to read three paragraphs of how some corpse is decaying blah blah blah makes me lose interest quickly. Hint at the color and sounds in a scene and let the readers' imagination do the rest. As long as you're not too vague with your approach, this type of thing is great.