The protagonist is blind and thus it’s harder for them to perceive the monster.
Anyone who sees the monster loses their mind/falls under its spell.
The monster is invisible (or virtually invisible because it is so stealthy)- it may even disguise itself as ordinary people/everyday items.
The protagonist is deaf and thus it’s harder for them to perceive the monster.
The monster is silent and therefore difficult to perceive.
The monster can control others by talking to them It’s voice may even drive them mad.
Suggested reading: Horror Masters: 3 Spooky Tips To Write Like Lovecraft, Poe, & King High Concepts: It rarely contains any obvious monsters or overt threats.
Surreal Horror: This sub-genre relies on the heavy use of Uncanny elements and the psychological landscape as a setting.
Examples: The Telltale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe.
Psychological Horror: This sub-genre places the audience in the monster’s mind, forcing them to follow the rationale for its perverse actions and confront their own capacity to commit and rationalise atrocities.
The protagonist’s only hope is that he might be too inconsequential for the Terror to notice him. The Terror is rarely a direct antagonist more often it is a pervasive, unavoidable presence. Human actions taken against a Cosmic Terror are futile. This sub-genre highlights humanity’s smallness and ignorance in relation to a vast, hostile universe. Attempts to understand the Cosmic Terror drives the protagonist mad - even looking at a Cosmic Terror might be enough to drive the viewer insane.
Cosmic Horror: This subgenre explores monstrous, (super)natural forces that are powerful on a scale beyond the realm of human understanding.
Body Horro r:This sub-genre is a heightened, metaphorical exploration of the deteriorating effects of age and disease on the human body and mind - the loss of self.
At its most potent, it leads to an experience of the numinous (spiritual or religious fervency) and/or the sublime (awe of greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement, or imitation).
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Terror: The feeling triggered by an ambiguous threat-you’re walking through woods said to be full of bears… when you hear what sounds like the growl of a bear close by.
It’s best to imply this or only show a glimpse-don’t linger here. This is a cheap gimmick that plays on humanity’s most basic evolutionary-biological responses. It leads to a powerful feeling of disgust: the sight of your loved one’s remains after the bear has torn them apart.
Revulsion: The feeling triggered by an experience of the morbid or diseased-blood, gore violence, etc.
This is a middling alternative to terror.
Horror: The feeling triggered by an unambiguous threat: a bear charging your loved one.
101 Horror Tropes For Writers Levels Of Fear: Now- with no further ado-let’s get into these horror tropes. You can’t have a fantasy story without fantastical happenings and/or creatures. For instance, you can’t have a piece of crime fiction without a crime taking place in the story. Here’s a quick refresher anyway: What is a trope?Ī trope is any recurring story element that helps shape, structure, and define a genre. If you clicked on this article, it’s likely you already know what a genre trope is-if you don’t, you might check out some of our other posts on the subject: Writers of horror fiction can use this list of 101 horror tropes to add some frightening moments to their books.