#I remember now I read The Horla and Annihilation
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Wanting to write horror has me wondering what is horror
#The truth is I've only read Poe and The Haunting of Hill House neither of which I find scary at all lol#So the answer is simple: read more horror fool#Ig I'll try A turn of the screw next and The Yellow Wallpaper (tho mind you#I've read the later in Spanish lol I just don't remember it at all 😂 & I mostly wanna read the essays about it's eugenicist logic but wtv)#I'm also remembering I read a Chinese horror short story in an anthology curated by Sergio Pitol that I wanna read again but can't seem to#Ever find#I remember now I read The Horla and Annihilation#Neither were scary lol#But I do love Maupassant's Horla lol despite the Whiteness.......#Babbling
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I think Poe is merely okay, tbh. Like. I'll fully admit I read him in middle school (and in Spanish), so it's quite blurry in my mind, but... Even then, it was just OK lol I remember his puzzle detective-pioneering short story more lol (I re-read the Telltale Heart recently and I'm still real lukewarm on it LOL I found some of the jstor essays interesting tho).
The Haunting of Hill House was great in terms of how doomed nuclear family as a site is in that book, but not scary. Like I love looove Hill House, I just don't find it useful to learn about horror.
The Horla is a classic for me lol You can clearly see how this was precursor to Lovecraft bullshit (I'm sure I've read at least one short story by this mf in Spanish but idr 😂😂). I don't find it scary, but it's great for a middle schooler to pore into, lots of anxiety about modern science (France, XIX century) and medicine, you can actually see a lot of the echoes in this brand of white thinking and anxieties in modern novels like Annihilation (which I deeply deeply hated btw lol).
Forgot to say I'm reading Our wives under the sea right now. Also not scary. I'm actually struggling a lot because of the pacing, but ironically, I think the prose is great.
Can't say anything about The Yellow Wallpaper bc I don't remember, I'm just excited to read the essays about it lol
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