User blog comment:Bountybear/Is gore scary?/@comment-4832646-20140320050836

Even using gore as an asset to the story, it can be terribly ruining if too much. Gore isn't akin to horror and creepiness as much as everyone thinks it is. It's just numbing. It's a lot like writing a romance novel but using a lot of sex - you turned that novel into a first class porn-story.

To me, I like torture in stories. But only to an extent. I enjoy mental and psychological torture compared to a gorefest any day. I'll use one of my old-but-terrible stories; my JtK ripoff (back in my noob days was when this was wrote) kidnaps a girl and mentally regresses her into an infantile state (diapers and all) in one of the serie's stories. Not only is it sick and disgusting, it seems more unnerving knowing someone could do that rather than slowly ripping them apart and pointlessly dismembering them. Most of the time when I have written a gorefest, that's exactly what I meant it to be: a gorefest.

tl;dr. Gore isn't that scary.