and that somehow makes us so scared that we have to sleep with the lights on? Seriously? Writing horror that's genuinely scary is no mean feat. If you're an aspiring horror writer (or even just an ...

If you're writing a longer story, it's important to have multiple drafts and to try out different ways of building suspense. A lot of authors try to introduce the “scary thing” whether it be a ...

Horror game writing elevates quality, making chilling stories and narratives immersive and unforgettable. The Cat Lady, Oxenfree, and Sunless Skies showcase the power of exceptional writing in ...

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 ...

She says: "I've always been drawn to folk horror, particularly the idea that the land itself has power and can hold secrets and trauma from previous generations. I wanted to write a children's ...

We checked in with three Louisville teachers — at the elementary, high school, and college levels — about some of their favorite scary stories ... s creative writing program, and Samantha ...

At nine years old, he would drag his typewriter from the attic to his room to write joke books. “I never wanted to be scary,” Stine emphasized while sharing the early stages of his writing career in ...

Here are seven that came out in the past year or so, along with some of the author’s thoughts about scary writing. The book, released in August, is a sequel to Silva’s “Undead Folk,” an ...

but Senf explains that age-appropriate horror is essential reading material for early readers and that many middle-grade authors would agree that when writing a book, they enter into a contract ...