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Brandon Sanderson's Use of Horror

Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

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Genes of Horror - Part 2

i kind of want to talk about some different genes of horror, in examples of them that brandon has used. This whole episode was originally inspired by genes a horrid affairs, no, it is, ishars, spren experiments like this. And so the breakdown of the genas we are getting from ven richten skied do a really good job of breaking down the different jean was of horror. So we're going to start with cosmic horror. Cosmic horror revolves around the fear of personal insignificance. At its best, cosmic horror makes characters feel gradually unmoored from their familiar reality. The ganre deals with how alien forces might alter us and debase

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