For some strange reason, there are still thousands of people who dig for scary novels even if they are sure to get goose bumps or even can’t sleep at night. That’s why you do have a market should you be interested in creating one. All you need to know is how to write a scary novel. Consider the different aspects of your book. It’s the characters and the setting that would usually bring the “horror” mood into your story. You could make use of fearful creatures such as vampires, ghouls, and ghosts as your protagonists or antagonists. You can set the environment in an abandoned home, in a faraway land, hell, or any place known to be too scary.

Research on what your target audience is fascinated about and scared of at the same time. One of the primary reasons why scary novels sell is because they feed on the fantasy of readers while making them sit at the edge of their seats at all times. You can look for situations or things that would capture their fantasy and make them scared at the same time. For example, you can revolve the story about an old haunted house. People are always curious about these kinds of abode, but they are scared of the stories associated with them. You can get inspirited from the works of famous horror novelists such as Stephen King. Observe what makes his stories gripping and chilling. You don’t need to copy his style, but you can use it to give you an idea on how to make your novel as equally riveting as his. If you’re not scared of it, then there’s a good chance that nobody will be. It may then mean that you have to rewrite certain parts of it, perhaps create darker settings.

As vital of the life it describes, folklore is in continues transformation. Folk customs, ritual and ceremonial in their essence, are a vestige of the past. Their origin, lost in the mists of past ages, lies in the continuous aspiration of man to understand life and all that is happening around him and to master surrounding nature, to make it actively his slave. Many such artistic creations, which are closely related to the ancient beliefs of men concerning the world, are considered among the first endeavors to conquer nature. Though originating in former epochs, the artistic ritual and ceremonial creations are still alive but have lost their Initial meaning and content. Their study illuminates the life and culture of people in the past, how they imagined the world. Furthermore, not infrequently such artistic creations rise to great heights, generally when their realistic character is evident. The knowledge of these creations is particularly useful to those who for the development of a national art at the service of the people.

The genres of folklore being historic categories with a social function and content and having their own means of artistic realization, continuously change their aspect in time and space according to the evolution of the people’s conception of life. Those, which do not correspond disappear within a day, the others undergo transformations according to the new social consciousness. Their function, their content and even their manner of performance change. Relieved, of their magical significance as well as their old train of superstitions, a series of ritual creations have been transformed or are in course of transformation into festive, ceremonial or independent artistic creations, in which the spectacular prevails. Called to answer new purposes, they are meant to enrich and beautify life. These facts, essential for the knowledge of the process of development of folklore, deal a powerful blow to the “traditional” conceptions according to which the genres of traditional folklore and especially of ritual folklore are considered to be petrified in immutable forms, their variants being nothing but the result of all kinds of combination’s of certain fixed of formulas.