Fear

There are elements consistenly found in mstery and horror stories. The unknown, suspense, fear, sudden changes in storytelling, long dormant thoughts coming back full force.

Fear is one thing that fascinates me in horror and suspense stories. I once wrote a story about a career woman who met people who reminded her of people in her past long deceased. When she met a man she thought had died fiteen years earlier, she realized that destiny was catching up to her. Fear can freeze people dead in their tracks. They feel powerless. They want to escape sensing that some horrible fate awaits them.

I like writing stories where a person comes face to face with their past misdeeds. Add supernatural events like ghosts and then you have the making of a good horror story. I like to believe that people will change when they see that thier evil deeds will come back to haunt them. In horror and suspense the story would compromised but I don't think so necessarily. That's what our imagination is for. We can twist and shape the story anyway we see fit.