Well, “Situational Horror” can best be described as ‘experimental,’ which is often author-speak for ‘something you’ve written that you expect to implode.’ Hey. I’m as guilty of that sort of thing as anybody else. Although I didn’t really know that it was going to implode.
It actually works.
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They are plenty horrifying. The more I understand where such “creatures” come from only fuels my dim prognosis for the society which spawns them. Perhaps it is not the beast itself, but its open masters that are the true horror.