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Brandon Sanderson's Use of Horror

Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast
Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast
Episode • Oct 23, 2021 • 2h 20m
It's October, the spoopy season, so let's do an episode on Brandon's use of horror in his works! This one has spoilers for uh basically every Brandon's works. We go into tons of different horror types and more, and explore how Brandon uses these elements in his books.

This episode, we have Ian (Weiry) hosting, along with Evgeni (Argent), Matt (Comatose), and Kadie (Ene)!

01:11 Spoiler Warning
01:40 Content Warning
02:34 What is genre?
08:05 Cast Experiences with Horror
18:33 Cast Experiences with Brandon Horror
29:10 Types of Horror Used by Brandon
30:20 Cosmic Horror
41:27 Body Horror
58:40 Dark Fantasy
1:05:41 Folk Horror
1:17:11 Ghost Stories
1:24:29 Gothic Horror
1:35:57 Disaster Horror
1:45:02 Psychological Horror
1:56:54 Slasher Horror
2:02:59 Who's That Cosmere Character

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