Author: David (---.174.11)
Date: 07-13-2001 23:12
In the article it talks about that Horror is mainly based on fear and the then several fears are listed. I don't know if this would fall under "Fearful Incongruity", but couldn't fear of the unknown be a major motivating factor toward fear. I guess this could also be considered suspense, because it's not what's going to happen to you that scares you but the tension of waiting for it to happen to you. Also the imagination is a powerful tool to conjure images of horror with only a few subtle hints. Also since the imagination has access to a person's real fears, it can scare a person far more that a GM can. Sometimes if a person knows of something horrible that is going to happen to them they can eventually learn to accept that fact. If you don't have something to accept, the imagination can wander and come up with fresh thoughts of what may happen. Hitchcock is the best example that comes to my mind about fear of the unknown or suspense. He would show hints of what happened to someone, but he never fully spelled out what happened to a victim in one of his movies. Lovecraft did that in allot of his stories too, "It was so horrid, I can't describe it," with a line like that over course the mind is going to try and imagine how horrid it could be. So in closing a very good cause of fear and horror is the unknown
David
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