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Not really sure. These days i'm reading horror from the 1970s to about mid 1990s. A lot of the horror i see coming out is a variation of zombie, post apocalypse, often young adult. Maybe because its easier for people to find out about various books the industry is able to churn out less than mediocre books. It does not have to be good to make money. Like Twilight or 50 Shades of Grey. Maybe horror novels are now even commissioned/planned by publishers and writers so they can have a high degree of an expected amount of profit. Once I'm out of my current phase of horror I'll probably go back to small press books coming out now. Which can be frustrating because they publish a lot of badly written novels.
*Stating Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey as bad is my opinion, not fact. However I wanted to use a recent example in a different genres that have been easier to make a profit from for a longer much further in the past.
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