While working on Mia's Story (I've already completed a small piece of this aforementioned upcoming novelette, you can find the short story snipped from here), I happened to think on the concept of "Layers of Horror", or how horror as a genre in media relates to our real life experiences.
People seek horror as a distractive funtime activity from myriad sources, and there's a large body of literature centering on the psychological aspects for the need of it. Most prefer horror in its "entertainment" form, ie. in the "cheap thrills" or "jumpscary" categories. Some - though minority - like the "actually" scary horror that is truly frightening and unsettling, as is the case in psychological and experimental sub-genres. But what about the deeper layer, that in which some of the most underground, sub-basement authors & afficionados such as myself find themselves indulging in? For the desentizited, only the most gruesome curiosities of horror can be deemed sufficient... and "fortunately" for us, that can be found from our very lives, from our very existences. Existential dread is, after all, as Ligotti says, best served bleak-cold, void of feeling.
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