Gothic romance: describes ideals very vaguely and whimsically, but in a freaky, vividly imagined horror setting so you don’t know what to feel and you have to figure it out for yourself
Addendum: Eldritch Horror: It cannot be described but it's definitely antediluvian and daemonical.
Gothic Horror: Also the staircase is a metaphor for the depths of the human psyche. So is the house. And the crypt. And the ladder. And the maze. And the mirror. And the lake. And the-
Where does Kingian Horror fall on that spectrum, or are his descriptions so disjointed they have their own line?
(It once took me 3 rereads of a paragraph to realize that there was a lake in the scene where people suddenly go from a gas station on a road into a boat on a lake.)
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Gothic Horror: Facebook, Tumblr
YA Horror: Instagram, Pinterest
i'm trying to only describe the weird, scary, or funny parts of things
We cannot describe this thing but will spend 2 pages trying.
Gothic Horror: Also the staircase is a metaphor for the depths of the human psyche. So is the house. And the crypt. And the ladder. And the maze. And the mirror. And the lake. And the-
(It once took me 3 rereads of a paragraph to realize that there was a lake in the scene where people suddenly go from a gas station on a road into a boat on a lake.)