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Hey /lit/,
I'm participating in a short story classes this winter, led by an amazing old fart who likes to challenge us with pretty much every task. BTW: It's not English speaking country, in fact I live in tiny tiny country of Slovenia. (Sort of better known now with Melania and all).
Now thing is, our last exercise was genre literature and I got horror. I thought to myself: an easy task. I love horror, Stephen King especially. But then ... Here's a problem.
Nothing ever happens in my counry. There are no "large swathes of savage country" like perhaps in Sweden. Everything is small. Everything is close. Everyone knows everyone. We had like TWO (and not very sucesfull) serial killers in 50 years. Thing is, most violence here is introverted - performed over spouses and close relatives.(murder). We have no ancient indian burial grounds ... I checked and in last 30 years, 80 people are missing. 80 in a whole country and most of them are people who got themselves killed in the mountains. So yeah, no drifters, no "murders in the night", no "strangers with a shotgun in your bedroom". We have a murder out of jealousy here and there that is not within family, but its rare.
All the fucking general "Horror setups" are gone here. How am I supposed to write a horror story in this boring not-extroverted place?
I know some people may go berserk, because I have missed something obvious, but I'm lurking on 4chan for past 10 years and i like ideas you guys provide.
I'd appreciate any feedback
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>>8802362
Describe Muslim immigration. If your teacher is redpilled you'll ace it
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>>8802362
You don't set it in Slovenia then?
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Why is any of that a problem? Write about Juraj Jánošík's ghost killing people for Marzanna. Write about vampires and werewolves. Write about people on a space station being hunted by raptors. Write about some non-specific creepy thing that hunts people in the mountains. What the fuck does the real life safety of your home country have to do with what you write about?
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>>8802362
>80 in a whole country and most of them are people who got themselves killed in the mountains.
There's also Australian outback horror you know, where people go into the outback and just make a bunch of simple mistakes and die.
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>>8802377
Interesting. Didn't know about that. We had an interesting event a few years back ehen about 30 kids from Netherlands ventured in light gear to the mountains and snowstorm came. (sort of unexpected). If not for mountain rescue there'd be 30 frozen kids there. So there is some potential i guess.
>>8802376
Has to be set up in my country, but otherwise good ideas. I was thinking of checking up our pre-Christian religions, but problem is those guys did not use written sources so most of material regarding this is shit.
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>>8802362
Here you go mate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foibe_massacres
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>>8802383
I was seriously thinking about this. Is it not too cheesy? Basically only mass-grave episode we have here. But it's rather wast.
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>>8802382
>I was thinking of checking up our pre-Christian religions, but problem is those guys did not use written sources so most of material regarding this is shit.
Stephen King did not thoroughly research Indian burial grounds either.
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>>8802388
I don't think it's cheesy. It can rather give you a lot of food for thought. After all, what's more horror than History?
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>>8802398
If you go this way, everyone here gets their panties in a bunch over partisans&white guard. BUT! If performed right, it could be really cool. Definitelly a viable option as far as it does not turn out I am trying to rake in some cheap popularity by entwining my horror story with our un-dead histroy that still plagues the country.
>>8802394
True I guess.
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