HALLOWEEN: Pick a trope, any trope...

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Original Posting 4 Oct 2012

Hey, there! Looking for a list of horror? Well, if you go over here

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HorrorTropes

You can find more horrible ideas than you can shake a stick at. Although I've never quite understood why someone would want to shake a stick at an idea -- after all, while sticks and stones may break bones, they don't do much for ideas. But...

How about these categories? Bloody tropes, cosmic horror, gothic horror, hammer horror, haunted index, madness tropes, nightmare fuel, psychological horror, religious horror, slasher movie, subverted innocence, survival horror, undead index (zombies, vampires, you know!), universal horror, werebeast tropes, and werewolf works. That's just the biggies!

With plenty of details to help you along the path of horror!

So. Take one of those genres (remember? monster in the house, golden fleece, etc.?) and mix in a little horror trope or two.

They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky...

Write!