Horror is all about unspoken drives, desires, and fears. If you can sublimate that on the page, you can elicit a reaction from the reader, and you can give someone the relief of knowing they’re not alone with their forbidden thoughts or shock someone into wondering why these thoughts are forbidden in the first place. You can push people into a space where they have to start questioning the architecture of their own mind and the world around them.
Gretchen Felker-Martin is also the author of Manhunt
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