Post by Miles on Oct 8, 2014 9:03:25 GMT -5
Probably one of the oldest forms of fiction: the stories of terrible monsters or chilling occurrences. Born from the ignorance, humans speculated, giving shape to their doubts, trying to explain nature. Myths, folklore and religions were born from these beginnings.
Horror, sadly, is a dying genre. We only have some people like Stephen King that do write it and make it famous. Maybe it's because our imagination is becoming smaller: most of our doubts are solved by science, and we have taken the habit of watching media instead of reading. Most children don't read that much today: I would be lucky to find a few, and of them, one that didn't keep it a secret since bullies get on with them, or they are ashamed of their literary likings. This forms a society where reading becomes smaller: however, some authors still pull people into reading again. But these authors are big: the smaller ones are prey to the situation of every new writer: getting an audience or not.
Horror is being destroyed or relabelled. Some things are now 'dark fantasy' when the main thing was the chills. If the community allows this genre to die, literature will lose yet another gem. It is difficult to compare to visual and sound media: they are direct. However, any book that makes you stand in fear of turning the page: that is horror my friends. That is more powerful than any of the sick films, which are now for shock value now: We do not have fear any longer. Even in films, the toll of gore is so high it can become ridiculous. I once watched a film: Final Destination 5, in which I did not really fear. I just squinted at the sick mind of a person that shows such graphic violence on a widescreen. We fear for the characters, or better said, care for them and are shocked. But the shock won't last: in a few weeks we shall be all right again. Horror is not that. Horror lingers with the reader, pursues the reader into late hours of the night. We just keep killing the genre with questions such as: How did that work?, and resurrect with questions such as What is going to happen?. Maybe we have taken too many horror elements out, making works such as Twilight: vampires are now shiny child-minded clowns, when before they were the cold in the night, suddenly taking us. And for censorship: people censor horror when they allow sexual and violent motifs on TV.
My competition to relive part of it! allyearsprints.boards.net/thread/181/horror-competition-pumpkin-pie
In the following hours I should have expanded this, but I need some more research and I needed to post this now.
Horror, sadly, is a dying genre. We only have some people like Stephen King that do write it and make it famous. Maybe it's because our imagination is becoming smaller: most of our doubts are solved by science, and we have taken the habit of watching media instead of reading. Most children don't read that much today: I would be lucky to find a few, and of them, one that didn't keep it a secret since bullies get on with them, or they are ashamed of their literary likings. This forms a society where reading becomes smaller: however, some authors still pull people into reading again. But these authors are big: the smaller ones are prey to the situation of every new writer: getting an audience or not.
Horror is being destroyed or relabelled. Some things are now 'dark fantasy' when the main thing was the chills. If the community allows this genre to die, literature will lose yet another gem. It is difficult to compare to visual and sound media: they are direct. However, any book that makes you stand in fear of turning the page: that is horror my friends. That is more powerful than any of the sick films, which are now for shock value now: We do not have fear any longer. Even in films, the toll of gore is so high it can become ridiculous. I once watched a film: Final Destination 5, in which I did not really fear. I just squinted at the sick mind of a person that shows such graphic violence on a widescreen. We fear for the characters, or better said, care for them and are shocked. But the shock won't last: in a few weeks we shall be all right again. Horror is not that. Horror lingers with the reader, pursues the reader into late hours of the night. We just keep killing the genre with questions such as: How did that work?, and resurrect with questions such as What is going to happen?. Maybe we have taken too many horror elements out, making works such as Twilight: vampires are now shiny child-minded clowns, when before they were the cold in the night, suddenly taking us. And for censorship: people censor horror when they allow sexual and violent motifs on TV.
My competition to relive part of it! allyearsprints.boards.net/thread/181/horror-competition-pumpkin-pie
In the following hours I should have expanded this, but I need some more research and I needed to post this now.
