User blog comment:ChristianWallis/Is the Written Word Scary?/@comment-25941663-20160824174041/@comment-28266772-20160824204305

It's a neat advantage of horror though and the reason why I love it. There are lots of horrors that have really unusual structures, and because mood and atmosphere are so important the plot structure has more room to get weird without robbing the story of impact. I gotta give Junji Ito some credit for his weird plot structures. Sometimes they border on flat out sloppy, but it's so forgiveable because the guy is just so fucking talented and original. If you haven't read him I highly recommend it. One of his stories is about a town infected with spirals, and it's brilliant.