I went through a few pages to see if this topic was raised, however I didn't come across (in my 28 hour and ongoing awake state) anything that seemed relevant. I apologize if this question was posed before, on here.
My question is what opinions people have on the transfer of other genres, most notably of course 'Thriller' or 'Suspense' into a pure horror genre midway into a novel. I can't off the top of my head come up with a specific story that is exactly relevant to reference (which I think says more against me than it does anything else), so I'll just be blunt.
If you create a less than happy world where your MC was blind to the fact that they on the razor's edge, is it unreasonable to, say, have the entire tone and even genre change when they finally open their eyes and slip off and onto that blade? Does the existence of the original genre(s) have to be maintained in spite of the desired shift?
I'm sure this has been done before, just I cannot think of a specific example so I'm generating a template example in my own mind. This overzealous template example: Four friends find mansion. Mansion is pretty (it matters, to me). Random friend touches x or y or explodes the vase of a million souls. All four are suddenly victimized, tortured, whatever. Where is the limit drawn? Does the tone change have to exist before, say, the first third/hurdle of the novel? Can it be towards the end? I meant this example to start as suspense, but make that tone shift towards horror, which is always my desired end goal... (just to clarify)
I learned after writing this that I'm wretched at trying to word questions; if anyone could make sense of me here- huzzah.
If this was supposed to go into Thriller/Suspense/Mystery, my apologies.
Edit: Maybe think like the Mummy, that sort of concept. Except with more fleshed our suspense before the whole 'everything goes wrong' concept
My question is what opinions people have on the transfer of other genres, most notably of course 'Thriller' or 'Suspense' into a pure horror genre midway into a novel. I can't off the top of my head come up with a specific story that is exactly relevant to reference (which I think says more against me than it does anything else), so I'll just be blunt.
If you create a less than happy world where your MC was blind to the fact that they on the razor's edge, is it unreasonable to, say, have the entire tone and even genre change when they finally open their eyes and slip off and onto that blade? Does the existence of the original genre(s) have to be maintained in spite of the desired shift?
I'm sure this has been done before, just I cannot think of a specific example so I'm generating a template example in my own mind. This overzealous template example: Four friends find mansion. Mansion is pretty (it matters, to me). Random friend touches x or y or explodes the vase of a million souls. All four are suddenly victimized, tortured, whatever. Where is the limit drawn? Does the tone change have to exist before, say, the first third/hurdle of the novel? Can it be towards the end? I meant this example to start as suspense, but make that tone shift towards horror, which is always my desired end goal... (just to clarify)
I learned after writing this that I'm wretched at trying to word questions; if anyone could make sense of me here- huzzah.
If this was supposed to go into Thriller/Suspense/Mystery, my apologies.
Edit: Maybe think like the Mummy, that sort of concept. Except with more fleshed our suspense before the whole 'everything goes wrong' concept
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