 Horror/Scary: August 10, 2005 Issue [#546] |
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Everybody talks about the weather but no one does anything about it.
And that’s a pity, because writing about it can add a whole lot of spice to a horror story. It can be any one of the basic structures of a story (if your mind twists that way!).
Generally it fits into the characteristics of a setting: a backdrop, an explanation, or framework for the rest of the story.
It can also be an action, and this in a number of ways. There can be action within the weather, such as raining, sleeting, wind blowing, etc. It can be acting upon something, such as raining on the roof, sleeting on the trees, blowing across a field, ect. It can be a combination of both---some elements simply being what is happening, others being happening to something.
There are some authors who have nicely worked the weather into a character. This, too, can be done in a number of ways. The most obvious way is to give the weather the characteristics of either a human or some form of animal. Giving weather or forms of the weather, motivations, emotions, reactions to something more than the usual (Usual: winds react to certain elements to become hurricanes or tornados. Unusual: someone curses at the weather and it becomes more violent) are some of the ways this can be done.
In other words, making the weather a sentient being. Since many cultures have already worked with this concept either within their spiritual beliefs or within their mythology, there are also some interesting ways to use this characterization.
The People of the Great Lakes area, for instance, believe a thunder storm is a huge bird who flaps its wings to make the wind, blinks its eyes to cause the lightening, and cries out to make the sound of the thunder. There are many wonderful `Thunderbird’ tales within this way of thinking, and an author could create their own story around one or more of them.
An author could also create their own mythology about or around the idea of weather as a sentient being.
When working with either ordinary or out of the ordinary uses of weather, one needs to write within the parameters of known weather conditions/activities. Or, if the author chooses to go beyond these norms, he needs to create a logical explanation for how/why this happens.
”A Golden Guide to Weather” is an inexpensive, and contains basic elements of weather. The book is easy to read and to understand, but a very nice beginning text on weather.
Also, when working with a cultural and/or mythological viewpoint of the weather, an author needs to understand the myth he is using. This usually takes some research, but the end result is worth the effort.
So there is some more talk about the weather.
The list of stories below use weather in some form or another
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And one that I believe truly stands out within the weather/horror idea:
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