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How the Horror Genre Works

Otherppl with Brad Listi

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The Transcendent Horror Structural Flip

There's a weird, like almost perverse joy that horror audiences and horror readers get rooting for the monster in a weird way. The hero of a horror story is almost always wrestling with these emotions. "Shame and guilt are very important in horror because they're the main tools for how the mind, which is already on the verge, pushes itself over"

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