Oh the HORROR!!!

[Guest]

Being a funny horror yourself, I can understand this opinion.

*squeeze*
sigh, such is life.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

How would you answer the same questions about EROTIC horror?

 

[rgraham666]

How would you answer the same questions about EROTIC horror?

I generally find my mind pushes out the erotic and concentrates on the horror. And I don't read the category often. Here at Lit or elsewhere.

Since I just finished my first attempt at the subject, we'll see if I can write that.

 

[Alex756]

How would you answer the same questions about EROTIC horror?

My take on erotic horror (granted this is a relatively new thing to me) is horror that has an element of sex to it. Then again I try to write characters with depth (don't know how well I do) but what I am playing with at the moment in erotic horror is an occasionally sympathetic monster who has a bit of an excessive sex drive.

I've been taking great pains to keep the violance down, which is why my currant piece took soo long, it took several tried to figure out how to not end up with anyone dead in the story. My first piece of erotic horror on this site I thought was low violance, but some people thought it was too 'bloody'. Who knows

Fear can be sexy though, and there is a tradition of making monsters sexy. Look at Buffy even. Alot of Japanese influences have very sexy 'monsters'. Rice has a traditoin of sexy to her vampires, as does vampire horror stretching way back. Sex vampires and demons of all cultures. Vast orgies of demons, we have a human tradition that transcends cultures of things not human being sexual.

-Alex

 

[Halo_n_horns]

How would you answer the same questions about EROTIC horror?

Erotic horror can be a number of different types of stories. When I submitted the first chapters of my Legacy of Judas storyline, a lot of it was an effort to bring eroticism and horror together in some unique ways that I hadn't seen before. In the last few chapters to come (of the first book) I'll be mixing the two genres even more so than I have already.

For the most part I find erotic horror ends up getting stereotypical. There's always some monster or bad guy, or bad woman, chasing down or otherwise tormenting an innocent person, typically though not always of the opposite sex, until everything comes to a head and there's either a submission to, or a grand overcoming of, the dark threat.

Some people write these things very cleverly. Most don't and end up submitting to the stereotypical in most ways.

 

[CharleyH]

In light of the upcoming Halloween contest I was wondering about the writing of horror itself.
What is it to you that makes for a good horror story?
Is it the supernatural element, creatures, the psychological things???
Do you like to be scared?
and What's the scariest thing you have read...other than the news and vcr instructions?

Abs...the curious.

Hm, I do not read horror per say. People freak me though LOL, Ok fine ... things that are unusual and come from no where ... mind fucks, really.