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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8198888" data-attributes="member: 177">Everyone gets an opinion.&nbsp; And much of the time he's a fine author.&nbsp; But, that doesn't mean he's particularly good at classifying literature.&nbsp; To wit:&nbsp; Trolls are scary.&nbsp; Giant spiders are scary.&nbsp; Being caught by orcs under mountains is scary.&nbsp; Corrupted people eating raw fish in underground pools and hissing in the dark are scary.&nbsp; Dragons are scary.The Hobbit may well have more traditionally scary bits per page than The Stand.&nbsp; However, is not a horror story.&nbsp; There's scary stuff in lots of things that aren't horror, so that can't be the determiner.&nbsp; The Stand doesn't have enough of the other bits that make a thing horror to qualify.I am not the Genre Police.&nbsp; I just have an opinion.&nbsp; To my mind, it simply isn't horror, and I think classifying it as such is misleading, and sets expectations incorrectly.&nbsp; If you aren't an academic, most of the point of genre definition is setting expectations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 8198888, member: 177"] Everyone gets an opinion. And much of the time he's a fine author. But, that doesn't mean he's particularly good at classifying literature. To wit: Trolls are scary. Giant spiders are scary. Being caught by orcs under mountains is scary. Corrupted people eating raw fish in underground pools and hissing in the dark are scary. Dragons are scary. [I]The Hobbit[/I] may well have more traditionally scary bits per page than [I]The Stand[/I]. However, is not a horror story. There's scary stuff in lots of things that aren't horror, so that can't be the determiner. [I]The Stand[/I] doesn't have enough of the other bits that make a thing horror to qualify. I am not the Genre Police. I just have an opinion. To my mind, it simply isn't horror, and I think classifying it as such is misleading, and sets expectations incorrectly. If you aren't an academic, most of the point of genre definition is setting expectations. [/QUOTE]

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