My Kind Of Horror

What I like and don’t like when it comes to the creepiest of genres…

Cee R.
ILLUMINATION

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Title: My Kind of Horror. Image: silhouette of a woman with devil horns holding a pitchfork
Graphic: author’s own, made with Canva

Warning: this post discusses all kinds of general horror themes (as you probably guessed,) as well as briefly mentioning mental health problems

I love horror — films, books, whatever, I am there.

Perhaps that’s a bit stereotypical, given I’m a Queer millennial smol emo child with mental health problems, but I figure being scared of fulfilling stereotypes just gives them more power over me — and stereotypes can shove it, tbh — so here we are! Lol.

I love dark sh**.

Gothic, macabre, and angsty AF? Gimme!

I’m not really one for disgust — the gross side of horror is not my thing.

The part of The Exorcist I look away at is the vomit.

…Ych y fi / …Ew, yuck.

And I’m not a big fan of anything gratuitous

— the Saw films aren’t really for me, no hate to those who love them. It’s just that I get alternately bored and grossed out.

I’m not really on board with full-on, doesn’t-stop, terror — not that many people can produce that effectively (she said, throwing shade all over the horror industry 😎)or anything that involves

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Cee R.
ILLUMINATION

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr