Surreal Horror - Blog Posts

Hello, I'm Harridan and welcome to my blog /|\^•x•^/|\

My interests include:

Nature

• I'm not a professional photographer, but I do like to occasionally take pictures for fun – I also love space and biology

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Horror

• Psychological, surreal, body horror, and psychedelic are my favourites

Sci-fi and Fantasy

• And other nerd stuff like D&D, anime/cartoons, and indie horror games

Astrology

• I'm a Sun/Neptune/Lilith dominant with a 12th house stellium

Aries Lilith/7th House

Scorpio Venus

12th House Stellium

12th House Stellium pt.2

Dark Houses (4th, 6th, 8th, 12th)

Clown month day 29: Melancholy

Definitely made with for Clown-month and not from a mental breakdown I experienced last night.

OWo

Wormy the Clown She can give infinite hugs :ó))

Nothing like taking acid with your giant Claw arm! :ó)

Mindless compulsions 

Goretober + Recipe [Day 7: Eaten Alive] 

Guess who's back? Back Without crippling self doubt that wouldn't allow be to post art I wanted to make? Today's Recipe is Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Chips This recipe makes 2-1/2 cups salsa and 80 chips 1 cup finely chopped fresh strawberries 1 medium navel orange, peeled and finely chopped 3 medium kiwifruit, peeled and finely chopped 1 can (8 ounces) unsweetened crushed pineapple, drained 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1-1/2 teaspoons sugar CINNAMON CHIPS: 10 flour tortillas (8 inches) 1/4 cup butter, melted 1/3 cup sugar 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon Step 1: In a small bowl, combine the first 6 ingredients. Cover and refrigerate until serving Step 2: For chips, brush tortillas with butter; cut each into 8 wedges. Combine sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over wedges. Place on ungreased baking sheets Step 3: Bake at 350° for 5-10 minutes or just until crisp. Serve with fruit salsa. You can find the original recipe Here :ó)

Cherry gore :ó)

hey do you have any tips on how to write surreal horror (mostly short stories?) it's a genre that i've really been interested in trying to write, but i'm not too sure how to go about it (and thanks for providing such a useful blog :D)

I love surreal horror. 

Okay. 

Plot twists are your best friend. Do the unexpected. Do a 180 last second, turn everything around on the reader. Obviously it has to be believable with in the context of the story, but keep it a surprise.

False sense of security? Works wonders. Nothing is safe. Let readers think something is good/pure/innocent/calm/safe/helpful/etc when it’s not. Lure them into that trap. Let them believe and then rip it away from them. 

Invert things. Similar to the false sense of security. Take things that are usually strongly associated with one thing, and associate it with the opposite. Take something dark and make it the good thing. Take something bright and make it evil. Take something sweet and make it bitter. Take something healthy and make it deadly. If you do it right, you can make the reader curiously uncomfortable. 

With surreal horror you want to shock your reader. You want to make them feel strangely uncomfortable. You want to make them question things. 

Hope that helps :)