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Something Weird Tales writers understood better than what is pushed and published today as "horror", is you have to be able to be afraid.
There's something to the general contemporary worldview that you can't be afraid of something. You're "lesser" for being afraid. We all see it with their racial and cultural views, being afraid of others is non-permissible as that makes you a bad person. You also see it with the caricature of trailer park white trash and their guns even, "I aint skeert, I got muh gunz".
Fear is non-permissible today, and so few people are 1. Grounded in reality and 2. Can write in an atmosphere and using items that beckon to that fear response
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@GinNig Perhaps the word is uncanny - a term describing things just aren't right, not as they should be, often creating a sense of anxiety or dread
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Robert E Howard included snakes and snakemen and serpentine imagry the way he does, in large part, because he himself was fearful of snakes, to use a fancy term, an ophidiophobic.
Lovecraft, well, Lovecraft was afraid of normal people. But he understood one thing that others are not anymore: xenophobia. Another thing he wrote well was a fear of things that just aren't right, not as it should be (I won't look up that word).
A big part of fear is tension. Unknowing of what or when. Anticipation, more than surprise alone.
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@heavens_feel Uncanny is a good word. May not be appropriate to all things (I have lovecraft on the brain), but uncanny is a good way of putting many things
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