 Horror/Scary: February 14, 2018 Issue [#8758] |
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This week: Strong Emotions Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Strong Emotions
On this Valentine's Day, take a peak behind the curtain of pink flowers, balloons, and chocolates and look into the abyss of human nature.
Mrs. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has been quoted with having said, "There are only two emotions: love and fear. [...] They're opposites. If we're in fear, we are not in a place of love. When we're in a place of love, we cannot be in a place of fear."
I'm sure she gave this a lot of thought before she said it. Of course, she said much more to illustrate her point. I still can't help and think that no amount of illustrating can simplify the emotions we feel down to two. We are all capable of many more emotions that aren't a variation on love or fear. That makes me think she's wrong.
Since today is Valentine's Day, I think it's a perfect time to discuss how far love and fear really are from one another. Judging by the many works of fiction here on the site where horror/scary and romance/love get mixed together, I can't help but wonder if these emotions don't belong together after all.
In addition to the examples from the site I posted below in my Editor's Picks, you can find thousands of fiction books exploring horror within the context of romance and love in bookstores or online.
If anything, I would say that fear (horror) and love feed of one another. At least in fiction they make a good couple to get a plot started, to enrich a plot, or to explain what happens in the story.
Wars, which are a form of horror, have been started for love in real life as well as in fiction. Both the ten year war of Troy as well as the Game of Thrones books are driven by love even as both stories are full of gory and horrific details.
Each time you write a horror story, you will find that adding an element of romance will enhance the feelings of dread. Give it a try.
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Jason Cantor, I thought. The name sounded familiar; he wrote murder mysteries. I wanted to know more. "Why doesn't he ever go out?"
While I had been looking at pamphlets for exotic vacation spots in places like Aruba and Barbados he had been booking our rooms at some obscure hotel in the middle-of-nowhere part of Vermont.
Does she keep her hit list in there?
She reached out and stroked the soft moss infesting his chin like a green goatee.
The bell rang out again, accusing me, as if to say, "I see you! I know your heart and what you’ve done. You’re a murderer. Murderer!”
There were identical letters addressed to her step mother, her two step sisters, her father and…yes…and her.
A shadow or rather the form of a tall man who had to have been veiled by the old elm tree's dying shape ventured forward. I gasped. Something was not right.
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Many of the great authors we hold dear today got their first paying jobs writing for pulps like Weird Tales, Astounding Tales, and True Detective, just to name a few.
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For my last Horror/Scary newsletter "Cannibalism" , I got these replies:
Danger Mouse  wrote: Cannibalism is one of my favorite horror tools. It doesn't have to be a person filling their own gut. What if you are very poor, broke, and have to feed the children or the dog?
A disturbing thought.
BIG BAD WOLF Feeling Thankful  wrote: Look up a fetish called "Vore" if you're going on along these lines. Either it will turn you on to an interesting thought process or turn you off your lunch. Discretion advised of course, as it isn't family friendly at times.
I agree. Not very family friendly.
Elfin Dragon-finally published wrote: While cannibalism may be a scary act to us, it does not always have to be a scary act in a story. If you have a tribe of people who've practiced it for generations as either a death rite or just a part of their culture, it becomes less frightening. As with many things, it all depends upon context.
I agree. Context rules. However, there are also disturbing accounts of missionaries saying they encountered a tribe of cannibals so that they could then execute said tribe to steal their land. Later archaeological excavations found no traces of cannibalism. It's way more prevalent in fiction than in real life.
Lilli 🧿 ☕  wrote: Oh my... interesting newsletter, very good and some cool links to stories too!
Thank you for the comment and I am glad the stories I linked find your favor.
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