User blog comment:Grizzly Bear/Writing In Third Person!/@comment-24419286-20140603070340

It's up to the writer to decide what point of view a story takes, I personally use either one depending on the story and what path I want to take to make it. Plenty of people here write in 1st person because they find it easier for their story and what they want to do with it.

In cases where the main character dies or you need to describe things that happened away from the main characters eyes is when you want to go into 3rd person but since most of the people find it easier to make things scary when the reader is just as clueless as the main character a lot will be in 1st person. It takes a skilled writer to strike fear into a reader when they already know everything that's happening.