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Writing Horror Within Fantasy

Many movies today are called Horror movies when in fact they are not truly horror. Gore is a type of ‘horror’ now but that’s not what true horror is.

In order to write about Horror, one would have to understand it. Know what it means and how it is used. There are many ways to write horror and we will go over what horror is and how to use it in your writing.

Horror is defined as: (Cambridge) an extremely strong feeling of fear and shock; (Wordsmyth) an overpowering and painful feeling of fear, shock, dread, or revulsion; (InfoPlease) an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.

Cambridge is a good dictionary for definitions and sentences. I’m using this to define different words relating to Horror.

Once you have an understanding of what horror is, you will find that you can use it in everything. You can have a story that is horror, one that is fantasy and use the types of horror to introduce monsters, villains, the unknown.

Runescape is full of opportunities to include horror into your writing. There are instances of worshiping evil gods and demons, Dark Wizards casting evil spells, bringing the dead back to life but not alive, summoning demons to kill a hero. Even betrayal, greed, murder, lying, cheating, using innocents and theft are evil acts that can be used to create horror.

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