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Horror/Scary: July 12, 2023 Issue [#12060]




 This week: Hear the Fear
  Edited by: Gaby Author IconMail Icon
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Avoiding typos is one thing. Creating what you promised? That is a quite different.

I've been a horror lover all my life. As a child, we were forced to read specific books in school and I never liked the idea of reading what is forced on one. Instead, I turned to romance at a very young age; romance for kids, of course. Then I stopped reading all together and started writing instead. Until I came to the States and the idea of books captured my heart again. Still, I never bothered to read horror. I needed a visual creation to instill fear in me.

Creating a visual scene isn’t the only way to scare someone out of their wits but with song as well. It is harder to do so when you only write the lyrics but there are many memorable lullabies sung around the world which can create a sense of sadness and fear. My favorite song had always been Oh my darling Caroline but the version in my language wasn’t creepy. It tells a story of three brothers from Texas and a girl named Caroline. The German version of the same song has a different meaning all together. When I heard the English version of it, I was taken aback by it and had to listen to it a couple of times to fully understand the words and what truly happened to the girl.

Ring around the rosie however will forever be a terrible children's song for me. And that’s where the beauty of it lies. Just hearing those words will always be associated with a sense of foreboding. In many ways the English version of many children's songs or lullabies will have a dark, yet hidden message within the lyrics. Death and loss are part of many.

While the horror genre only got introduced in 1764/1765 songs weren’t a part of it. Is it possible to add such a thing to a book or a story and create the fear within it? Have you tried it? I’m very curious as to what that would feel like. Reading it rather than hearing it. Please, feel free to share such items with me and the rest of the Writing.com community.

‘Til next time!
~ Gaby *WitchHat*



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