How to Write a Horror Story

With body horror, it's this really interesting balance of using very specific descriptions to kind o, like that those hackles rising. You don't want to go writing three pages on everything that's gross about this creature. And then it's interesting, as you were talking about language, one of the things it made me think of was, so too too related thoughts. But i don't actually see one of them in our list of examples, so that might be interesting. One of them is describing things in a way that is intimately familiar to every one, but then invoking a feeling that is not so if you, as an author, are describing the sound something makes as the thumping of

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