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February 5, 2025

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🕷️ Horror Writers & Readers—Let’s Talk Tropes! 🕷️

Some horror tropes never get old, while others make you want to scream (and not in a good way).

👁️ Which horror tropes do you LOVE? (Give me all the creepy cults, cosmic horror, and unreliable narrators!)💀 Which ones make you roll your eyes? (Is it time to retire the "It was all a dream" ending?)

Drop your favorites—and your biggest pet peeves—below! Let’s see what the ShadowSphere crowd thinks…

#HorrorTalk #ShadowSphere #HorrorTropes #WritersAndReaders

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Feb 05, 2025

I know many publishers don't want to see the familiar monsters (Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies) but I have to confess I still enjoy a good monster story. One trope that is feeling stale is the "Found Footage" horror, launched by "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) and then popularized through the "Paranormal Activity" series of movies. On the whole, they started to get old, but there are still a few gems in there, like "Europa Report" (2013).

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