the reason I bring it up is because the craft isn't dead. just like in outlast, a video game, in writing it is not "dead" just not really alive. in video games, there are games such as outlast and amnesia that have released resiliently that are made to scare. but the horror games of our elders are how just generic action games and have been watered down from there horror roots. if you don't believe me, play resident evil remastered and then resident evil 6, you will see a difference.
if you haven't cached on by now, atmosphere is everything. for the original resident evil, it is a dark mansion with allot of small coriander and not very well lighted areas. just like outlast that has poorly lightened hallways, and jump scares but sometimes without you seeing them coming. (Warning, foul language on videos, it is just to show you examples of jump scares preformed correctly and a creep pasta.)
writing has also kept it alive very well. I can Tell this from the short story I am reading now about the second human in counter with the flood. the short story is about 150 pages and doesn't directly show the flood til about the 75 Pg. mark where they have a major jump scare. another example of horror in writing is any creepy pasta ever. If you don't know what a creepy pasta is, it is a internet horror story that is passed around from website to website and its goal is to scare you.
