Why Body Horror Grips Readers (and How to Write It)
Caitlin Starling continues making the rounds to promote her book The Death of Jane Lawrence, most recently appearing in CrimeReads with an article about...
In Folk Horror, the Evil is Inside Us
In an essay for Lit Hub, Michelle Nijhuis explores folk horror. Not exactly a subgenre (yet), folk horror arises from a collection of concepts...
Know Your Enemy…and Beat the Crap Out of It
Writing fight scenes between two human characters is difficult enough. We've all marveled at the way action movie protagonists can take massive amounts of...
What All Writers Can Learn from Horror
There's a lot more to horror stories than horny teenagers and machetes. In a new blog post, Kristen Lamb talks about the lessons writers...
Using Fear as a Weapon and a Hill to Conquer
Fear: a vital element for thriller and horror fiction, but also an emotion commonly found in stories of all types. Mastering the expression of...
The Powerful Writing Lessons in Urban Legends
We've all heard the stories. The hook in the car handle. The man in the bathtub with no kidneys. Rod Stewart... never mind.
In an...
Can You Over-Explain the Unnatural?
In a post on the Nelson Agency's Pub Rants blog, Angie Hodapp says writers of speculative fiction need to find the right balance between...
The Horrors of Suburbia
In an article for Writer's Digest, Maureen Kilmer shares six tips for writing domestic horror. "When I first began writing the book that would...
The Case for an Elevated Horror
In an article for CrimeReads, Amber Cowie discusses how horror can be used as more than a jump scare, but as a narrative tool...
Finding Originality in Horror
A few days after sharing 21 popular horror tropes, Writer's Digest shares advice from writer Richard Thomas about avoiding them. You can't win, can...
