Scary Story Genre Scary Vampire Monster Archetypes Werewolf
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Scary Story Genre Scary
• Vampire Monster Archetypes • Werewolf • Thing • Zombie
Vampire • The vampire archetype of monster: • • • can pass for a human. can appear as a friend, loved one, or seducer. makes the familiar unfamiliar. can evoke empathy Can evoke a twisted power trip • The idea that your very best friend or loved one could be a monster is quite disturbing to us.
Hannibal Lecter Serial Killer • Vampire Archetype • Eats flesh (instead of drinking blood) Like vampires: • Stalk the streets • hunt for prey • Could be next door neighbor Serial killers real – vampires mythical
The Werewolf • Tortured in some way • Can’t allow it to live • Normal man looks into the abyss and becomes what he fears most • Normal to stark raving lunatic (ha ha ha) • Scary because a beast lies within us all and could be awakened.
The Thing • • The unknowable other Something within us that we do not know creature is a force of nature. cannot be reasoned with or bargained with • manifestation of the fear of the unknown in a walking, crawling, or flying form.
Zombie The zombie really fits the” thing” archetype. • can’t reason with zombies. • if you explain them with a virus or other anomaly, there is a definite mystery about them. • Their very inhumanity (tied to our humanity)makes them unknowable and horrifying. • the archetype of the werewolf works too. Fear • of becoming a zombie – becoming the very thing you fear the most
Other Archetypes • • • Ghost child - changelings Scary dolls Vengeful Ghost Aliens Devils Death/shadow Trickster imposter Creature Epidemic Slasher Scientist
Setting Archetypes The horror genre also has some standard archetypal settings: • The graveyard • The small town overtaken by the scary thing • The haunted house • The insane asylum • Camping trip • Road in the middle of nowhere • The cabin in the woods
Symbolic Archetypes The scary story genre also has some symbolic archetypes such as numbers, colors, or weather. • 666 • Black (darkness, mystery, evil) • Green (death, decay) • Red(blood) • Storms, wind, lightening or fog
