Mark Joseph Young
I suppose the short answer is, no.
To write horror, you have to get the reader invested in some person or object which you then threaten. Mood, plot, character are all secondary to that.
I discussed this in the mark Joseph "young" web log #132: Writing Horror http://www.mjyoung.net/weblog/index.p... (republished by the French edition of Places to Go, People to Be) some time back, still worth reading.
To write horror, you have to get the reader invested in some person or object which you then threaten. Mood, plot, character are all secondary to that.
I discussed this in the mark Joseph "young" web log #132: Writing Horror http://www.mjyoung.net/weblog/index.p... (republished by the French edition of Places to Go, People to Be) some time back, still worth reading.
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