Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-34423991-20180511202529/@comment-35559560-20180529054407

Mike is Nocturne wrote: Honestly, any kind of pasta which contains shocking things just to be "scary" like excess gore, dead babies, shit that was only added to be creepy but it ends up just being gratuitous. I'm trying to think of how this good be used in good taste (for lack of a better term). If we got to know the victims BEFORE the gore and disturbing/graphic/violent content and stuff was done, like developing doomed characters "Mauve Shirt" style, would that make it more IMPACTFUL? Cause I am reading the book "Flashforward" by Robert Sawyer and the creepypasta "Penpal" which did something similar (maybe also the original Bram Stoker Dracula novel depending on how you see it) but with what I described and despite it make me want to not read it for a bit, it still was well done and was horrific in a good way, rather than tasteless and disturbing in a bad way?