User blog comment:NathanLeachman/How to Spook Your Readers!/@comment-26475800-20160316235912

I'm sorry, but how many stories have you written?

You go into this as something to try and help, but you hardly give any advice. Your Creepy vs. Scary section could have given a good amount of tips on how to achieve the goal you are looking for. (I personally disagree with your idea of what is creepy and what is scary. Scary and creepy can be used together, to be creepy it is something that is unnerving but just slightly, scary is when you feel the panic and fear the characters are feeling. Writing creepy things only add to a scary story, and make it even scarier.) (Sorry, that was kind of a long aside.)

Dread is defined as: 1 a : to fear greatly b archaic :  to regard with awe

2
 * to feel extreme reluctance to meet or face

Paranoia is defined as:

1) a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations

2) a tendency on the part of an individual or group toward excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others

Both of those definitions are from Websters dictionary, and it's funny but they don't really seem to match what you put. I mean, I don't see the anything about "sadness" in dread.

sorry, I disagree with almost everything you had said and I am feeling rather ornery today. Before you give advice you should check your facts and build a name for yourself. No one is going to be taking you serious if you haven't even been published before. I looked at your page and didn't see any stories under on your page that you had written, so I am only assuming that you haven't written anything.

Maybe I'm being really harsh, and if I am, I'm sorry that I ruined your day.