Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5643552-20131116051048/@comment-23970366-20131123120156

Razorbeak wrote: gore and death are really overused and I blame modern "horror" for that - good horror should at least try and have some psychological terror or some sort of twist, blood and guts is more for parodies.. if you are serious about writing horror why go for gore?

there is nothing horrific about gore - it's gross but not scary.. scary is things that make you think twice about the world around you.

seeing some guy get stabbed or mutilated is not scary, especially not after the billionth time.

witnessing some shit that defies what you think of as reality however, is pretty scary. Yep, agreed. I use some gore when I wanna write a creepypasta, but not too much that it becomes a boring killfest. True horror is what you don't see instead of what you do see... That's why creepypasta which can make you paranoid work so great.