Writing the Scary—7 Tips for Creating Horror and Dread with Words

What’s the scariest scene you’ve ever seen in a horror flick? Why was it scary?

Now I know some of you are going to default to either scenes of gratuitous (now there’s a loaded word if ever I’ve seen one), gore or perhaps others will immediately think of a jump scare, but I want us to think even deeper than that? What scared you even deeper than the moment of the scare? 

For me, those are the true scares, the deep frights, the fears that rattle us at our cores and stick with us.

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