L.K.’s answer to “The first (and last?) Stephen King book I have read. I gave this book one star because the story pi…” > Likes and Comments

And still doesn't come CLOSE to REAL horror, which I see all the time on my job as a paramedic. In fact in the movie 11/22/63 where they put that it was for a Mature Audience due to the violence, and I saw what violence they were referring to, I almost had to laugh. I shouldn't have felt like laughing but it was funny that whoever does the blood scenes, the person who decided to do it, thought that there would only be that tiny amount of blood at a slaughter where a hammer was used.
Even minor head wounds bleed so much it alarms the reporting person into calling the ambulance. One where people actually died would have so much it would make a nonmedical (and even some medical) people sick.

I would like to let you know I actually applauded this comment in real life. Yes, horror has this and SO MUCH MORE because that is what horror is. Thank you L.K. :)

You can write about horror without having to make it about sex. You can write horror about sexual taboos and sexual violence without writing those scenes in gratituous, explicit detail.

This comment is really quite ignorant. Please understand that for some people, certain topics are just too uncomfortable to read. Sexual assault is something that sadly has happened to a lot of people, and for them reading a detailed scene goes beyond horror, and becomes very real. Thats doesn't mean they can't read horror, or deal with other graphic / psychological issues. Sometimes a little empathy to other people's experiences can go a long way.