Part of the difficulty horror writing faces has to do with the defenses that modern readers bring to genre fiction. Like virtually every other genre, horror only came into its own as a discrete mode ...

From Resident Evil to Alan Wake and The Last of Us, these games are masterclasses in horror writing.

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. Horror game writing elevates quality, making chilling stories and ...

Ask a horror writer what influences them, and the answer often involves religion or history. When it opens Nov. 21, an exhibition at the American Writers Museum in Downtown Chicago called American ...

Like many, local author Lora Senf's love for writing came from an intense enjoyment of reading in her childhood. Through the words of John Bellairs and Stephen King, Senf found her passion and ...

Horror movies have a unique status when it comes to screenwriting, as they offer a specific opportunity to teach aspiring screenwriters different ways to make their films more engaging. Anything can ...

Cuthbert’s third book, Self-Made Monsters, is a hybrid collection of feminist horror, and contains stories and poems featuring women as villains and victims, as bystanders and enablers, exploring the ...

Want to read something really scary? Horror writing is very much alive – ALIVE! – in San Antonio. In recent years, the city has spawned a horde of horror scribes and stories set in the 210, with works ...

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