Crime verses Horror
I dislike the concept of genres as boxes that stories have to be shoe horned into and think of them more as end members on phase diagrams with the story occupying some area between the points, a little bit of this and a little bit of that. No story is ever just one thing. So My story started out as a horror, with a beast that needed to be fed blood, an insane god from the old world but once I actually started writing it it became clear that it was fundimental a crime novel.
But when I thought about it – fearing that it would not be appropriate for the month of all things scary and spooky I thought upon the horror writers and films of my youth. alot of them could easily be described as crime fiction, Hannibal Lecter is pretty grusome and Stephen Kings Misery and the like are about dememted killers. Cereal killers and nut jobs appeared steadily through out the Dean Koontz and Clive Baker books. So the fact that my main protagonist is a cop is fine, it is I suppose the suspense that lends some crime the ability to be horror also.
Crime itself is not a straight forward genre, within it are cosy, medical, thriller, suspense and paranormal – and that was just off of the top of my head. I bet if I went and looked it up I would find an awful lot more.
So The Godex is a Crime and a Horror but it is also a Da Vinci Code-esk scifi thriller. I know people are divided on the Da Vinci Code I have personally only seen the film and it was like alot of films contianing secret societies, a class of fiction I tend to lap up. It wasn’t the best I’d seen but nor was it the worse.
But I digress my main point is that it is not actually a case of Crime vereses Horror but more of say Crime swollowing Horror and then being eaten from the inside out.
Posted: Monday, November 19th, 2012 @ 4:56 pm
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