Loose Change

Humor in Horror

I find it fascinating how humor and horror tend to go together.  There is just something about that uncomfortable feeling you get when reading horror that tickles your skin and makes you laugh nervously.  Horror movies, especially for teens, tend to embrace at least a bit of that silliness.  I guess it makes it clear that they are not taking themselves too seriously.

This comes up in my mind because I am working on a horror poem with a subtly humorous twist.  Not silly pseudo-horror Monster Mash stuff, but Lovecraftian over-the-top horror, which is almost silly by its very existence.  Anybody else tried writing Lovecraftian horror, which is quite different than most of the horror on WDC?


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