Is it normal guns in horror stories usually bug me?
So I’m an aspiring writer, and while horror isn’t my main genre, if I ever feel like I’ll write a quick horror story as a part of a collection of short stories I hope to write some day. Now, I often avoid having characters use guns in general, but I do make exceptions (like one poem I wrote that described the way people died, if I felt it worked with the flow) but for whatever reason I always make it a revolver. I’m not entirely sure why, maybe because it has that Wild West feel, or it just appeals to me. Idk.
But the main reason is this: my favorite horror stories are ones that feel ancient, like these horrors have been around since the beginning of time, and guns, while an old invention, are nowhere near that archaic. I personally prefer knives if a weapon must be used by the villain, as those have been around a LONG time and can often lead to much slower, much more painful deaths!