This is going to be a living article. I will keep adding to it and refining it as I develop this idea further. I love "The Monsters Know What They're Doing", by Keith Ammann. I love it because it gives a relatively static piece of text

Don't worry, everybody survived... at least eventually. Let me explain. While DMing our Curse of Strahd campaign I discovered that nothing evokes real, actual horror like a fight with a boss that (1) you don't think you can escape, and (2) you're pretty sure