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On Writing Horror : : a Handbook

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The madness of art / Joyce Carol Oates -- Acceptance speech: The 2003 National Book Award for distinguished contribution to American letters / Stephen King -- Why we write horror / Michael McCarty -- What you are meant to know: twenty-one horror classics / Robert Weinberg -- Avoiding what's been done to death / Ramsey Campbell -- Workshops of horror (and seminars and conferences) / Tom Monteleone -- Degrees of dread: horror in higher education / Michael A. Arnzen -- A world of dark and disturbing ideas / J.N. Williamson -- Mirror, mirror / Wayne Allen Sallee -- Going there: strategies for writing the things that scare you / Michael Marano -- Honest lies and darker truths: history and horror fiction / RIchard Gilliam -- Such horrible people / Tina Jens -- A hand on the shoulder / Joe R. Lansdale -- Eerie events and horrible happenings: plotting short horror fiction / Nichalas Kakufmann -- Reality and the waking nightmare: setting and character in horror fiction / Mort Castle -- He said, she asked: some thoughts about dialogue / David Morrell -- Keep it moving, maniacs: writing action scenes in horror fiction / Jay R. Bonansinga -- Dark enchantment of style / Bruce Holland Rogers -- Innovation in horror / Jeanne Cavelos -- Depth of field : horror and literary fiction / Nick Mamatas -- Splat goes the hero: visceral horror / Jack Ketchum -- Darkness absolute: the standards of excellence in horror fiction / Douglas E. Winter -- On horror: a conversation with Harlan Ellison / RIchard Gilliam -- No more silver mirrors: the monster in our times / Karen E. Taylor -- Fresh blood from old wounds: the alchemist meets the biochemist / Joseph Curtin -- More simply human / Tracy Knight -- Possibility of the impossible / Tom Piccirilli -- Take a scalpel to those tropes / W.D. Gagliani -- That spectred isle: tradition, sensibility, and delivery or ghosts? What ghosts? / Steven Savile -- New horrors: a roundtable discussion of horror toady and tomorrow / Joe Nassise -- Archetypes and fearful allure: writing erotic horror / Nancy Kilpatrick -- Writing for the new pulps: horror-themed anthologies / John Maclay -- Freaks and fiddles, banjos and beasts: writing redneck horror / Weston Ochshe -- Youth gone wild / Lee Thomas -- Writing horror comic books, and graphic novels / David Campiti -- Acts of madness: writing horror for the stage / Lisa Morton -- Fear spins off: the tie-in novel comes into its own / Yvonne Navarro -- Play's the thing on the doorstep: writing video and role-playing games / Richard E. Dansky -- Now fear this: writing horror for audio theater / Scott Hickey and Robert Madia -- Good characters and cool kills: writing the horror screenplay / Brendan Deneen -- Dark fluidity: online research and marketing resources / Judi Rohrig -- Small press: filling shelves with rare books / John Everson -- Sharing the creeps: marketing short horror fiction, version 2.0 / Edo van Belkom -- For love or money: six marketing myths / Bev Vincent -- One reader at a time: promoting your horror novel / Scott Nicholson -- Afterword: quiet lies the locust tells / Harlan Ellison.

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PUBLISHED
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: xii, 260 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1582974209
9781582974200

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Castle, Mort.
Horror Writers Association.

SUBJECTS
Horror tales -- Authorship.