Horror stories aren’t built in a day. The history of horror is replete with iconic moments across all its mediums – books, films, TV and even more recently video games and web series. And what many have in common is that they come in the shape of the ‘reveal’ – that moment in the genre where we as readers find out what it is we have been afraid of the whole time, and ideally will be even more afraid of when the author presents it to us. It is the time that the ‘monster’ (in whatever form it takes) goes from being a theoretical or hypothetical presence and is given its own nightmarish presence. The story can of course change very quickly at this point, whatever point of the plot it happens (and we will talk more about that shortly). But of course these moments are not simply pulled out of hats, and are typically given careful forethought by horror creators. And in this piece we’re going
