Writing Horror: Fear, Gore, and the Monsters Within

Just in time for Halloween, this episode explores the expectations and pitfalls of writing horror and how to write fear in any genre.

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Overthinking Couch Topics:

• Fear in any genre
• The core of horror
• Tension as the backbone
• Themes and monsters
• Horror subgenres
• Global horror
• Pitfalls to avoid

Next week, we’ll leave the monsters behind and step into Literary Fiction, the genre that insists on finding truth in everyday life.

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Music licensed from Storyblocks.