User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/What is True Horror and How to Achieve It/@comment-24918243-20140816004411

Very good advice, and i could not agree with you more on that.

Especially the part about gore and time cycles.

I don't remember where exactly I read this, maybe it was in "Dance Macabre" where it was said that the main difference between a gory story and a true horror story is that a gory story scares you while it's being read  A true horror story scares you even after you put the book down. So in other words, it makes you think.

Those are words I try to live by.