The Living and the Dead

 

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The Living and the Dead

Welcome! This is the first article in a planned series on paranormal romance (my favorite genre to write). There is no limit to the possibilities for paranormal pairings, but today we’re going to take a look at one of the more common kinds of couples: living people and ghosts.

The scare-o-meter

We know this is a romance, but the scare factor is up to you. Does your haunted house kill characters or just scare them? If they die, is it quick or messy? Does the backstory of the house include shocking violence and murder, or deaths due to disease and old age? Do you have a cast of kindly ghosts who want to protect your characters, or dead serial killers who’d love to up their body count? Of course, you can also write scares as comedy. Maybe the ghostly victims of the serial killer are a squabbling bunch annoyed by the fact that only one of their bodies has been discovered, and spend their time creating increasingly unlikely plans to guide the living to the rest of the hidden graves, all of which just end up terrifying visitors, and I TOLD you, Richard, this is why we need to be on Youtube, all the other haunted houses are there.  

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