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This is why I don't like the popular creepypasta "Jeff the Killer", because I find it far more depressing than scary.

Whenever I read about a loving mother being eviscerated by her own son who used to be a good little boy, or maybe a Furukawa-like girl getting her face ripped off by a necromorph just days into a giddy relationship, it's not scary, it's depressing.

People dying is only scary with atmosphere and without attachment, that meaning attachment to characters who aren't protagonists and get viciously eviscerated. Being scary is your protagonist hearing things that go bump in the night and that slowly escalating into a cluster of horror. If they die it makes it all the scarier because that monster or haunting might get, oh say YOU and without remorse. Other people dying works when it's subjective and what I mean by that I can explain with an example:
Boy hears things, goes into mother's room, she's slaughtered. She was never explained but since the term "mother" was used and you're supposed to immerse yourself in a horror story, it was your mother, and it makes it all the scarier.

My point is, things are scary when you feel like they're happening to you. The mother in Jeff the Killer was really nice, and her dying *spoiler woopsy* didn't make it scary it just made me feel bad for her. The daughter in Seven Deadly Sins was also depressing and not scary.

Exmortis 2 to give another example, it's a slippery slope. The first journal was both depressing and scary because of how it puts you in the writer's shoes and brings insanity into it. Jeff the Killer was third person, I didn't feel his insanity, from my perspective he was just a douche.

I need to feel like something's happening to ME, that's scary. No one's personality in a short horror story (to be specific) needs to be explained because the whole thing should be from my perspective. When kind mothers are gutted or little girls are shredded, you might as well throw a puppy stomping scene in your story, you sick man. Not scary, just depressing.

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This is why I don't like the popular creepypasta "Jeff the Killer", because I find it far more depressing than scary.

Whenever I read about a loving mother being eviscerated by her own son who used to be a good little boy, or maybe a Furukawa-like girl getting her face ripped off by a necromorph just days into a giddy relationship, it's not scary, it's depressing.

People dying is only scary with atmosphere and without attachment, that meaning attachment to characters who aren't protagonists and get viciously eviscerated. Being scary is your protagonist hearing things that go bump in the night and that slowly escalating into a cluster of horror. If they die it makes it all the scarier because that monster or haunting might get, oh say YOU and without remorse. Other people dying works when it's subjective and what I mean by that I can explain with an example:
Boy hears things, goes into mother's room, she's slaughtered. She was never explained but since the term "mother" was used and you're supposed to immerse yourself in a horror story, it was your mother, and it makes it all the scarier.

My point is, things are scary when you feel like they're happening to you. The mother in Jeff the Killer was really nice, and her dying *spoiler woopsy* didn't make it scary it just made me feel bad for her. The daughter in Seven Deadly Sins was also depressing and not scary.

Exmortis 2 to give another example, it's a slippery slope. The first journal was both depressing and scary because of how it puts you in the writer's shoes and brings insanity into it. Jeff the Killer was third person, I didn't feel his insanity, from my perspective he was just a douche.

I need to feel like something's happening to ME, that's scary. No one's personality in a short horror story (to be specific) needs to be explained because the whole thing should be from my perspective. When kind mothers are gutted or little girls are shredded, you might as well throw a puppy stomping scene in your story, you sick man. Not scary, just depressing.