{"id":275,"date":"2003-12-19T14:53:20","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T19:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=275"},"modified":"2009-03-18T16:32:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T21:32:22","slug":"on-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2003\/12\/19\/on-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"On horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nIn a recent discussion on genre in <cite>rec.arts.sf.written<\/cite>, someone quoted a post of mine I had written a year or so earlier. Looking at it, I thought it would be interesting enough to share here too.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHorror is a mood, fantasy is a genre.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo explain a bit: horror can be evoked through the mundane (Silence of the Lambs), the science fictional (Who Goes There?) or the fantastic (Dracula).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHorror revolves around evoking a mood of dread, of being scared shitless, a growing sense of unease or discomfort, the sense that something is wrong with the world.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFantasy revolves around magic in some sense or other, like science fiction revolves around science in some sense or other and mainstream or memitic fiction revolves around &#8220;the real world&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHorror can be evoked in all three of them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.quicktopic.com\/25\/H\/aVU26nTCB7WLL\">What do you think?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent discussion on genre in rec.arts.sf.written, someone quoted a post of mine I had written a year or so earlier. Looking at it, I thought it would be interesting enough to share here too. Horror is a mood, fantasy is a genre. To explain a bit: horror can be evoked through the mundane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[197,198],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-horror","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}