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For what it's worth, because this is a pretty subjective topic, I think the less you show your audience in horror the more terrifying it becomes. You have to set a scene certainly but the more you ...
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System
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2019-12-08T09:22:46Z (over 4 years ago)
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Ash
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2019-12-08T09:22:46Z (over 4 years ago)
For what it's worth, because this is a pretty subjective topic, I think the less you show your audience in horror the more terrifying it becomes. You have to set a scene certainly but the more you get people to project their own fears into situations the more people you will scare and the better the fright will be. Look at how little H.P. Lovecraft actually says about the form of his many terrors, he leaves the reader to fill in a lot of the details and they're all the more horrible for it. So set the scene and let people scare themselves.
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System
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2018-07-15T11:54:13Z (almost 6 years ago)
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