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How to Build Unease Without Jump Scares
Horror isn’t about shouting. It’s about whispers. What haunts readers most is not what they see, but what they think they see—or what they realize is wrong, slowly. In this post, we’ll go beyond clichés and jump scares to dig into craft methods actual horror authors use, and I’ll show you how I used them in Salt & Bone and The Death of Me.
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