What is Horror?
The point of horror is to scare or to fill the reader with terror. The genre of horror creates a sort of atmospheric tone that allows the reader to become immersed into the story. Along with the sense of fear being installed into the reader, there is a response that a reader provides while reading a horror story. For example, when you are reading a horror story, if you truly are scared, someone might tap you on the shoulder and you would jump, because the fear from the horror story already has you on the edge of your seat. Horror is my personal favorite genre mostly because of this reason. You don't temporarily get physically affected by the story in almost any other genre.
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The story we read in class, written by Stephen King, is horror because of a few reasons. "The Cask of Amontillado" is horror because of the setting. It is set in a basement during the graveyard shift, or in the middle of the night. Also, it is horror because it suggest ideas of gigantic mutated rats, that can tear a human apart. This is horror because it is made to install fear into the reader, and giant mutated rats are also meant to scare the reader.
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