Innocently Dark
How do horror writers manage to scare us? Anticipation. Expectation. And then...blindsiding us. It doesn't always work that way. There are always exceptions, but this way works well. There is a darkness in all things innocent. We just (fortunately) don't always see it. We don't even recognize that it is there. We have become so used to the innocence that we completely trust it. Until it unleashes hell upon us. If I see a tiger pacing back and forth a the zoo, I know it is scary. I'm not too scared. It's in a cage after all. There are children…