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How the Horror Genre Works

Otherppl with Brad Listi

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The Importance of Structure in Horror Stories

It's not enough, you argue in your book, to simply play on the tropes of a genre well. You have to do more than that in order for the story to be effective. The difference between trope and genre is that trope is an individual story beat, genre is a sequence of story beats. It is the sequence of the story beats that works on the audience.

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