Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast Brandon Sanderson's Use of Horror
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Body Horror Definition
- Body horror exploits the fear of our own bodies.
- It emphasizes the fragility of flesh and the potential for unseen horrors.
Hemalurgy and Body Horror
- Hemalurgy and constructs in Mistborn exemplify body horror.
- They represent bodies that should not be, blurring the line between human and monstrous.
Scadrial and Dark Fantasy
- Scadrial under the Lord Ruler could be a dark fantasy setting.
- Brandon's optimistic framing focuses on heroism and good, mitigating the darkness.
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Introduction
00:00 • 1min
What Is a Genre in Literature?
01:27 • 2min
Science Fiction, Horror, and All History - That's Worse
03:24 • 2min
Can You Have a Horror Story Plus Dragons?
04:59 • 3min
Are You a Horror Fan?
07:40 • 4min
I've Never Played Um Call of Kathulu, the Role Playing Game
11:40 • 1min
I Like the Aesthetic of Horror
12:55 • 5min
The Most Terror Brandon Has Ever Made You Feel
17:44 • 6min
Alcatraz Book Review
23:16 • 3min
Alcatraz - The Most Horrifying Thing Ever
25:55 • 2min
Genes of Horror - Part 2
28:19 • 4min
The Shards, the Incomprehensible Forces
32:20 • 2min
The Threshold
34:27 • 2min
Shards and the Implacable Force of Destroyment
36:50 • 1min
Is the Loss of Autonomy?
38:19 • 2min
Body Horror - The Evil That's Onthreaded
40:14 • 5min
How to Write a Horror Story
45:25 • 2min
The Human Brain Is Not Like a Normal Heart
47:52 • 3min
Islik, It's All Body Horror
50:35 • 3min
The Fused and the Reversal
53:47 • 2min
Brandon's Body Horror Isn't Gory
55:49 • 3min
Dark Phantasy - What Is It?
58:23 • 3min
The Pursuit of a Dark Fantasy Setting
01:01:04 • 4min
Folk Horor Adventures
01:05:01 • 3min
The Misborn Adventure Game, a Bocks
01:08:04 • 4min
The Force of Hell on Trenity - The Missed Spirit
01:11:48 • 3min
The Night Watcher and the Fay
01:14:41 • 2min
Ghost Stories - How to Become a Cognitive Shadow
01:17:05 • 4min
Ghost Story - Part Three
01:20:39 • 2min
Gothic Horror
01:22:32 • 3min
Gothic Stories: Themes That Haunt Gothic Horror
01:25:36 • 4min
Isd, and Shadows for Silence, Maybe?
01:29:07 • 2min
Yeh, I Am a Bad Person, I'm a Bad Person
01:31:27 • 4min
What Is Disaster Horror?
01:35:54 • 3min
Is Everyone Believes in the Danger?
01:38:50 • 3min
The Disaster Is Past
01:41:39 • 5min
Caladin's Mental State Can Be Used to Describe Psychological Horror
01:46:44 • 5min
Chalon's Ark Is Not Psychological Horror, but I Can See the Pathway, I Like the Pathway
01:52:12 • 5min
The Last Thing We'll Discuss Is Slasher Horor
01:56:51 • 2min
I Think the Next Misborn Trilogy Might Contain a Cereal Killer
01:59:14 • 2min
Slasher, Monster Horror, or Horror as a Whole?
02:01:01 • 2min
Who's That Cosmic Character?
02:02:51 • 2min
The Girl Who Looked Up
02:04:28 • 2min
A Is Not the Mad Prince, but I Like the Direction You're Going.
02:06:56 • 2min
The Way of King's Prime - Is It?
02:08:49 • 2min
A Jek Son Non It Is Not a Parrot
02:10:20 • 2min
The Stick Isn't the Stick.
02:12:12 • 2min
A Liar of Partondal - Bonis Cluenumbe Six
02:14:09 • 2min
The Oa Is Not Published in Some Versions of the Stories.
02:16:02 • 2min
What's Your Scariest Moment in Brandon's Books?
02:18:13 • 3min
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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