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Link to pride heart-tonguesPrompt: horror is a revered genre among the heart-tongues. it’s revered in the sense that only a gifted few can really tackle it with the finesse and aptitude needed to do it justice; the stories are not easy ones to create and tell. while other storytellers seek to inspire feelings of happiness, sadness, anger, or passion, a teller of horror stories must know how to inspire fear. to dig into the deepest anxieties of the everyday soul and fashion them into a tale that ignites those very fears. it’s easy to come off as inane or juvenile when an attempt to scare goes wrong, either from relying too heavily on tropes to buoy the story or from relying solely on the shock factor to bring out a reaction in the audience. too many things can go wrong, and so very few get it right. those that do get it right are respected for their ability to twist together tales so malevolent and chilling that they continue to haunt listeners long after they are told.
the heart-tongues sometimes have entire evenings dedicated to stories of a frightening nature, usually told under nights with no moon, as these are nights when the ancestors turn a blind eye to their subjects, leaving the pride vulnerable to all manner of supernatural occurrences.