User blog comment:ChristianWallis/Is the Written Word Scary?/@comment-25941663-20160824174041

I loved how you mentioned the hero's journey and how horror doesn't follow the trend. That fact is embedded deep into the horror's genre dna, in my opinion. It's what makes it so enjoyable. The unpredictability, the weirdness, the out-of-the-norm feeling that comes with horror.

For me, horror writing is the weird cousin of literature. You never know what you'll find and the excitement that comes with that originality/creativity is what makes the genre stand out.

I know that wasn't really the point of the blog (great blog, by the way), but oh well.