Well, look at Goosebumps, no one ever dies.
There are no guns.
No one ever dies.
If there's a ghost, it happened a long time
before the story started.
The real world is pretty much kept out.
That's my one rule, my big rule for writing middle grade
horror, is that they have to know it's a fantasy.
They have to-- the reader has to know this couldn't happen,
couldn't really happen.
It's all just a story.
And once they know that, if you've established that,
and you've written it in a way they
know that it couldn't happen, then you can go pretty far.
You can go pretty far with the scares.