Whenever Halloween is coming, I usually either do research on monsters and origins of scary stories or just simply read or watch Halloween/scary stories.
I agree, the gifs are a bit much. Horror of this sort should be a more subtle thing, and these are an eyesore. Especially when the gifs themselves aren't all that scary. I think the stories would be better off without them.
Some of them are good, but I don't really care for most of them. I like the second one the most. While I don't think the sixth one is all that scary, I did have the urge to look up, so that's good. I like the idea of two sentence stories, though.
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 10:28 am
The gifs were really overkill. They also killed any horror I might've experienced from them. For some reason, seeing a moving image of someone's reaction to fright, or something that's supposed to be scary in context, makes everything else seem less scary.
However, the 2-sentence horror story is a great tradition that can really spook people if done right. The fact that there are only two sentences of detail leaves everything else up to the reader's imagination, which can sometimes be much scarier than expanding upon the story itself.
Also, number 5 was the only story that made me check to see if I was still breathing.
However, the way they're presented with the gifs completely removes the scary element. The moment you give the reader a image that doesn't match what they could be imagining is when your story loses effect and they become nothing but words.
"They said I could be whatever I wanted. So I became "everyone"."
I like the two sentence stories, because if done properly you can invoke a lot more fear than most of Hollywood's horror films. Actually, any two liners can invoke any range of emotion depending on the feeling the lines are trying to invoke.
Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 11:41 am
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Posted: Mon Oct 07, 2013 5:00 pm
I agree with some of you that the gifs are annoying to go along with the stories. In addition, I don't see the two sentences being horrible. There are some that are good such as 11. But there are some with terrible grammar errors. I won't deny staring at number 6, thinking "Something is wrong with that sentence," no matter how much I understand that sentence. DX
Anyway, it will be nice if we can do our two sentence stories too.
Isadora stared in horror when she found an eyeball in her soup. The Hawk King brandished his knife before the Dame Knight.
As Ninian read the anonymous note, it said, "I'm coming to meet you." Hot and husky breath was breathing down her neck.
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