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Brandon Sanderson's Use of Horror

Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

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Gothic Horror

It's the only explicitly horror thing brandon has written. The pitch was like, what if teen agers that play ta exbox all the time actually played with real, live humans and like, murdered each other? We're not a bystander experiencing a ghost. So let's move on to our next genre of horror, gothic horror. Letch this one have a bunch of big words to a it doesn't look like it bout finda mabe sophistication. Gothic horror is about the terror within, not without. It shatters the illusion of humanity in a poignant way by holding a mirror up to us and saying, look at whatwi ly are, and look at what

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