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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The most effective horror is the stuff that happens in our own heads. I think modern writers in several genres err by showing their hand too soon.
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I think movies are largely to blame. Horror writers are often guilty of putting the movie into the book. What works on the page doesn't always work in a movie and what works on a movie will not always work in a book. The most recent example I can think of was
The Hollower by Mary Sangiovanni where there was a monster in the characters head, but she turned it too quickly into run away from the movie-type monster.
Lovecraft was never guilty of that kind of mistake. Of course, he lived in a different era.