Unlike the story of Mystery Story, which is usually written in narrative style, in general, the formal Mystery Story appears in the form of rules, codes, explanations and precautions, and is written in the tone of requirements, orders or suggestions and advice. The rules in mysterious stories are often similar to those of the same kind that are common in life.
However, there are many abnormal contents in the specific content of the article, which arouses readers' curiosity and achieves a horrible effect. Besides the seemingly abnormal writing style, excellent rule-based mystery novels usually design hidden core settings. The author hides these settings in numerous, fragmented and even contradictory rules.
While making the whole work an organic whole, readers have to browse the text repeatedly, splicing and setting fragments, eliminating the false and retaining the true, and gradually approaching the possible truth, thus decrypting the work. Similar to most horror works, the main use of conventional mystery stories is still fear, curiosity and imagination of unknown things.
At the same time, the rule-based Mystery Story takes advantage of people's trust in the authority represented by "rules" and their common sense of "obeying rules", adding unusual, strange and contradictory elements to the usually authoritative and reliable rules, which makes the readers who bring into the story hesitate and fear whether to obey the rules, thus forming a horrible effect.
History and development
Tales of mystery, a conventional genre, emerged and rose in the trend of creation of numerous online tales of mysteries, and its specific origin and first work are difficult to verify. On the Internet in China, people often carry stories of mysterious people's works in foreign language communities such as Reddit, including some conventional mysterious stories; In addition, original works were born.
The popularity of Mystery Story on the Internet in China originated from the publication of Zoo Rules Mystery Story on the anonymous edition of Island A on 202 1, which set off a wave of analysis, interpretation, recreation and ridicule. Subsequently, many stories of regular mysterious works were created.