asakiyume | (Reply)

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I have not read much horror either and very little on purpose, so I may be way off base.

There's one character who is already clearly a bad person, but at some point early on in the book, it was apparently necessary to make this very clear, so King has him xvpx n qbt gb qrngu (rot13). There's no plot-related reason for this; it doesn't have repercussions later. It's just, as far as I could tell at the time, to show that this is a very bad person.

Other than things like that, where the more horrifying extra thing happens, the more bloody or lurid or terrifying choice just generally seemed to be made, whereas a different writer writing the same kind of book would not have made those particular choices but could still, I think, have gotten their point across. King already had gotten his point across in the case of this example but he didn't seem to think that he had.

It's been so long that I can't come up with more than the first example; I'm sorry.

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