Horror Part 1.5

So due to the earthquake drill today we did not have a club meeting. But that won't stop writing club! Not today!
If we had had a meeting the topic would have been horror. We would have started with this quote from Stephen King:

“The three types of terror: The Gross-out: the sight of a severed head tumbling down a flight of stairs, it’s when the lights go out and something green and slimy splatters against your arm. The Horror: the unnatural, spiders the size of bears, the dead waking up and walking around, it’s when the lights go out and something with claws grabs you by the arm. And the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there …” — Stephen King

Then we would have looked at some writing tips for horror, via this tumblr post. I found this article to be interesting but also debatable. Tell me what you think in the comments! That's what they're there for!

Finally, I would have revealed our first picture writing prompt! The prompt for this week is:

As Halloween approaches, we must sustain the skeleton warlords with more spooky stuff.

The scariest thing I read in the last 7 days was actually from a Wikipedia article. I saw the trailer for "In the Heart of the Sea," a movie Chris Hemsworth is starring in. I heard that it was based on a true story that inspired Herman Melville to write Moby Dick. The Wikipedia article tells the story of the Whaleship Essex here. 
This is a true story, so here are some trigger warnings (that are kind of spoilers):
whales, stranded at sea, death, drinking pee, starvation, cannibalism
This was horrifying to me even without the flair of descriptive writing. And I mean, 2 first-hand accounts were written. I cannot imagine reading them. This is a really good example of something to inspire realistic horror writing.