/lit/ - Literature

>>23449705
From my understanding, great horror is all about suspense and making the horror mythical even if it's really realistic. Mainly for the sense of power over the viewer. Zombies have numbers. Monsters have their shape and size. The unknown as the unknown. Remove these features that defines the strength and the horror is lost. So you always want to have some sort of unknown surrounding it to the reader. Revealing too much means they can be beaten, and you don't want that sense of it being beaten. You want it to be some sort of force they cannot be escaped from, inevitability.