Superstitions Show our Uneasy Relationship With Death
In a post on Killzone, Garry Rodgers shares thirteen strange superstitions about death that he learned as an apprentice coroner. "One segment in the...
Don’t Skimp on Your Paranormal Research
In an article for Writer's Digest, J. Fremont offers tips for avoiding clichés and bringing authenticity to your writing about ghosts and the supernatural....
Use Character to Get Under Your Readers’ Skins
There's a lot more to horror than simply creating a monster or scheduling a few jump scares. The greatest horror hits your audience in...
Tips for Writing an Eerie Ghost Story
In a guest post on Janice Hardy's Fiction University, Rayne Hall offers advice for writing a spooky ghost story.
First, all good ghost stories are...
A Structure for Your Horror Story
In a post on Novlr, Pamela Koehne-Drube suggests a plot structure for writing terrifying horror fiction. "There are no hard and fast rules for...
Is it Time to Swap Out These Horror Classics?
In a post on Lit Reactor, Peter Derk, tongue firmly in cheek, suggests that some classics of the horror canon are due for replacement....
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...
Want to Write Great Horror? Be Ready to Cross the Line
For writers dipping their toes into the waters of horror fiction, finding moments that get under your reader's skin is an important skill. Without...
Add Natural Disasters to Your Horror Toolbox
In a post on CrimeReads, R.J. Jacobs says that using natural disasters as a backdrop for a horror story heightens the tension and fear.
If...
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...
