#and Inland Empire is the scariest thing I've ever seen so this isn't a hard and fast rule

[warblingandwriting]

idk what's wrong with me but I feel like I have the opposite reaction to most people of horror when whatever's going on isn't explained or the monster is never shown it scares me less because I just have questions.

I read a short story recently that I have seen a a bunch of people hail as one of the scariest ever and I understand why it's liked and revered because it had a really interesting story structure, but the story itself left me totally cold going 'well what was that?' in the end. Perhaps I'm just not capable of imagining certain amounts of darkness, but all I could think at the end was why. I wasn't spooked at all because there no explanation of why the spooky thing was the way it was and that made it feel.. less real to me I guess. I like ambiguous endings, and ambiguity in other types of stories but with horror it often doesn't work on me