Use comic relief to feed your readers real horror

Some things that happen in life are so horrific, we don’t know how to talk about them (still learning how to talk about trauma as a society), we turn them into fiction. 

But even in fiction sometimes it’s too horrific most most readers, and they turn away.

How to tell your tale while staring true to its horror and yet get the readers excited about it?

Shroud horror in comedy. Hide it under humor. Present it as something funny when it’s not funny at all.

Monty Python were masters of that. Study t...