tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post386207765531507961..comments2024-03-12T12:38:23.542-04:00Comments on The Kind of Face You Hate: The Kind of Face You Slash - Day 5: Where I Am Now It Is Very Hotbill r.http://www.blogger.com/profile/17748572205731857892noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2856547151523423474.post-26903752343042926042013-10-07T06:01:14.760-04:002013-10-07T06:01:14.760-04:00Gotta say, the "horror without victims" ...Gotta say, the "horror without victims" idea itself seems pretty fundamentally flawed right off the bat. It's the victims themselves that most if not all the pathos in a good horror story springs from. Indeed, it's their experience that makes the horror <i>horror,</i> whether viewed subjectively or externally, in the first place.<br /><br />I'm not saying it's necessarily impossible to write a good story on this theme, but like, say, trying to write "noir" with a cast of preschoolers, at best you're starting with a huge, possibly fatal handicap. I like the sound of the classical horror stories volume a lot better.<br /><br />Anyway, both these writers seem to have missed the "without victims" mark pretty widely, so it's almost beside the point here. And you're right, that last line from the first story is one of the worst things I've read online in a long time. It even makes the average Lovecraft pastiche, with its standard, bizarrely narrated "IT'S COMING THROUGH THE WINDOW MY GOD MY GOD MY EYES ARE MELTING MY FAAAAAAAACE" conclusion, sound infinitely better, somehow.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05364322006357208797noreply@blogger.com