What Draws Readers To Paranormal Writing And Thrillers?

Reading is fun because you get to escape every day life. You’re able to get lost in a fantasy world for a couple of hours (for the fast readers) or a few days (for the leisure readers).

I’m a huge fan of reading different genres. Are you? Depending on the mood I want to engage in, I’ll read a certain genre. Thrillers for excitement. Romance for warm fuzzies. Mysteries for curiosity. You get the picture.

I believe that different personalities are attracted to certain genres.

For Thrillers:

Readers are the thinking type. They like facts and logic that they can follow throughout the story. If it’s a mystery thriller, then they’re motivated to read to the end to solve the puzzle. Will the bad guy get what’s coming for him? Or will he get away with everything?

Readers are the action-adventure type. They want to experience a thrill ride, something that will have them sitting on the edge of their seats.

Readers have a vivid imagination. But, they enjoy reading something that could have some truth in our every day world. Spies do exist. Criminals do exist. Cops and other heroes do try and catch the bad guys to get justice.

For Paranormal:

Readers are the feeling type. Emotion plays a huge role in their reading experience. They want to feel passion, they want to enjoy situations that don’t happen in the real world, maybe they even idolize the supernatural (like vampires, werewolves, aliens).

Readers may even be big kids at heart. Who doesn’t want to believe in fairy tales or epic adventures? It’s fun escaping to a world with monsters, heroes, and villains. Can you imagine being the person needing a hero, and your hero being a handsome supernatural creature in human form? Yummy.

Readers have a vivid imagination. They may even be the idiosyncratic type where they dance to the beat of their own drum. Some people believe in the paranormal world, like ghosts. They like to analyze the question “What if?” and come up with a thousand different scenarios to each situation.

So, are you a thriller aficionado? Do you love paranormal writing? What do you look for when you open a book? Write in!

Thank you, Hemanth, for letting me be a guest on Aymaran Shadow’s blog today! It was fun!

Keep smiling,

Yawatta Hosby

Yawatta Hosby enjoys connecting with other writers through blogging. A Writer’s Blog shares book reviews, writing tips, and tidbits of her publishing journey. With a desire to escape every day life, she creates novels, novellas, and short stories. She has always had a fascination with psychology, so she likes to focus on the inner struggles within her characters. Yawatta is also an avid reader. Favorite genres: mystery, thriller, horror, and women’s fiction.