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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
Perhaps the reason for this goes back to Edgar Allen Poe's insight that the short story can create an amazingly intense experience--and Horror depends on that intensity.
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Absolutely. And that was pretty much the argument - that you need to be able to maintain that intensity. The longer the story, the more diluted the intensity.
But I guess for me, I want a little back-story. I want to know a bit about the people placed in the situation. I want to get a developed view of what's going on. So most of the time I'll sacrifice some of this tension to get the bigger picture. But I certainly don't discount the argument. It makes quite a bit of sense.
For me horror becomes a darker form of fantasy. Scary rarely happens, but horror isn't necessarily about being scared anyway.