Nothing frightens a miser more than the prospect of not getting paid. - Darrell Schweitzer

Horror is not quite as elusive as science fiction, for which there are as many definitions as definers . Most modern practitioners will agree that it's a a matter of mood , not of specific content . A story can be horrific without being supernatural or even fantastic , as much of Edgar Allan Poe readily demonstrates. In the simplest sense, a horror story is one that scares us.

The true horror story requires a sense of evil, not in necessarily in a theological sense; but the menaces must be truly menacing, life-destroying, and antithetical to happiness.

One more thing I will tell you, the great secret I learned through my experience."
"What was that?"
"Never listen to idle tales. They make you mad and lead you through the bowels of a god."
"Of course," said one of the disciples after he had left, "it is the nature of the madness that one never heeds these warnings.