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I have always been a fan of horror, ever since I was tiny. H.P. Lovecraft became a major inspiration to me in more recent years, though, and, honestly, I think creepypasta is the modern evolution of Lovecraft's "weird fiction" genre.

What I love about writing horror is that it's often more visceral than other genre fiction; in addition to having a plot, and character development, you have to make the reader FEEL something -- tension, dread, apprehension, fear, disgust, etc.--, and failing that, you have to make the reader question how much fiction is really in the story, and how much could be real.

I'm more a fan of psychological horror than anything gory or shocking, and one of the core tenets -- to me-- is the art of what you don't explain. Anything you, as the writer, come up with by way of reason and explanation for the events of your story is infinitely less terrifying than anything the reader has come up with on their own. Your job, therefore, is to feed them enough information that they can draw reasonable conclusions without imposing so much detail that your explanation falls short of what had them twisted up in their own minds.

I love the exploration of fear, the human mind, and how tenuous the lines between fiction, reality, and belief can be made.