| Re: horror vs. dark fantasy
Indeed JD. I'm so happy that you come up with arguments that include terror. In fact I started this topic, because I was about to write a story for an anthology and I feared the storyline wouldn't have been the right genre. Now that I inquired, they described horror pretty much as terror in my opinion.
think of the following:
a terrifying sound
a horrifying sound
terrifying would be more like a wolf's howl, while horryfying could be something like: "splatter". Like JD says: the moment you see it, the terror becomes horror.
The ambiguation (is that even a word), well the searing ambiguity of the genres is not really a problem, unless you as a writer get asked to define your story or have to read submission guidelines that just state a genre. |