As for humor in horror, I'm beginning to think that it's almost necessary to make for an effective tale; speaking for myself, I've noticed that if I'm reading or watching something that's unrelentingly grim and focused too tightly on the general horribleness (horrificity? horribility?) that's going on, I tend to draw back from it, and it doesn't really GET me.
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He attempts in vain to convey to the robbers that his nasal passages are impenetrably blocked. They duct-tape his mouth. I will not even attempt to approximate the horrificity of the death's description; I could not do it anything resembling justice. Such writing. Then there's an equally if not more horrific story of a guy who dies by shooting up Drano.
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> But this whole discussion assumes that "ISO C" will solve the problems
> of portability, which is not the case. A study of the Inform source will
> demonstrate some of the challenges involved in writing portable C,
Most notably, the horrificity[1] of allocating RAM on various platforms. […] [1] That's a word now. Perhaps. It's better than horrificality would have been, anyway.
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Actually, I have a slashfic that I'm writing for Mellie that will, I trust, plumb new levels of horrificity. I mean, *I'm* appalled by it.
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