EXERCISE: These tropes, these tropes, they're going to walk...

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Original posting September 27, 2013

I'm sure some of you are familiar with the wonders of TV Tropes, one of the better ways to lose track of time on the Internet. But with the Halloween story contest coming up, did you know that there's lots of horrible things there? Here, take a look at

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

Starting right off with lots of abandoned places, ghosts, haunted and progressing through evil elevators, invitations to dinner with the cannibals, museums... The list just keeps on going. Even the categories -- bloody tropes, cosmic horror, Gothic horror, haunted, madness, nightmare, psychological, religious, slasher, subverted innocence, survival, undead, werebeasts and werewolves... Wow!

Phobias, fears, horrors. What sends shivers down your back?

Just right for Halloween!