@gulaaab Thank you for the reply! I agree with you about characters making a story when it comes to the love genre. There isn't anything else!
When it comes to horror, I think it can be a really complex genre. I like a story with an unreliable narrator or a calculating narrator. It adds to the unease of the world the story puts you in, and even if nothing much happens in the story, that sense of unease is enough to make it scary. If a story is relying on descriptions of gore to make it horror, I think the writer hasn't really done enough, That's my personal opinion.