Horror Stories

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Horror Stories Anonymous Tue Nov 12 06:48:08 2013 No.4264007 [DELETED]

Does /lit/ have any hints on how to write a good horror story?

Also feel free to post examples of what you regard as a good horror story/book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 12 06:57:07 2013 No.4264017 Here's HPL's "Notes on writing weird fiction" but even that is useful for writing anything and not horror specifically. http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/nwwf.aspx

Anonymous Tue Nov 12 07:02:07 2013 No.4264026
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>>4264017
>http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/nwwf.aspx

The fun part about that is, Lovecraft gives a lot of recommendations that are similar to those of R. L. Stine.
Guess it's a thing of execution.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 12 17:49:30 2013 No.4265230 Being scary helps.

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