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Brandon Sanderson's Use of Horror

Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

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Slasher, Monster Horror, or Horror as a Whole?

Bear: I think i've realized brandon uses horror a lot more than i thought he did. It's just because it's not recognizable as horror elements, often because of the contents, context and perspective he's using to frame it. Ah, so break it down into the it's like we said at the ginning to bring it full circle, genre is artificial. And so you can say, this is what makes horror horror, but brandon can go and have a book that contains all those things that is not a horror book. Bear: Even though these two are the most dominant, they're not dominating in a way, right? And then all the others are.

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