Cavalorn (cavalorn) wrote,  Looking For The Quintessential Scary
Moment  Hughes’ Tiger, The Uncanny Valley and the Eye of
Yamamura Sadako  An Essay, by Cav  Confession time.  Fear is
fundamental to who I am. It fascinates me. I like nothing better
than to explore it, investigate it and slide its various
surfaces around in the hope of finding a way inside. I am most
truly myself when I am scaring the shit out of people by some
means or other, whether by writing or gaming or sitting them
down in front of favourite DVDs or whatever method comes to
hand. I hope that this does not make me a bad person.  There is
nothing worse for a horror writer than failing to be
frightening. When you can achieve true fear, it is better than
sex. When your attempts fall flat, then nothing will revive
them. So, I often find myself looking into the mechanics of
horror, if only to get some kind of comprehension of how to
create it.  The recent Channel 4 show, The Top 100 Scary
Moments, was about what one could expect from these barr