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Rayne Hall Author

"Horror Writing Prompts" by Rayne Hall.
This book is crammed with fertile seeds for fiction that will thrill, disturb or scare your readers. Each prompt comes with a wealth of suggestions for how you can develop it to suit the kind of story you want to write. Plant those seeds into the rich ground of your own imagination, and watch them grow.

Paperback ebook. mybook.to/HWP


Blue book cover 'Horror Writing Prompts' - shows a hand holding a pen and another hand holding a horror head.
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Margaret Sefton

One thing I like about many of the stories in American Horror Stories is the way a lot of the horror has its seed in some unmet need of the protagonist and in some way, they make a choice to fulfill that need, a choice that can lead to a bad end. It's a working theory of the story structure and I'm thinking about it as I watch Tapeworm, the third episode of season 3.

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Margaret Sefton

For people who read, write, watch gothic horror, you may really love this interview with author Catriona Ward. It is fascinating. I especially loved the argument for the usefulness of horror: It provides preparation for the vulnerable.

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SpotifyDark Word #022: Catriona WardListen to this episode from The Dark Word on Spotify. Catriona Ward was born in Washington, DC and grew up in the United States, Kenya, Madagascar, Yemen, and Morocco. Her fourth novel, the gothic thriller Sundial was Observer Thriller of the Month and a USA Today, CNN and Apple Books selection for best new fiction. Stephen King called it ‘Authentically terrifying.’Ward’s third breakout novel The Last House on Needless Street won the August Derleth Prize, and Esquire magazine listed it as one of the 25 best horror novels of all time.Ward’s second novel Little Eve won the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award and the August Derleth Prize. It was a Barnes and Noble best Horror Book of 2022 and a Guardian best book of 2018. Ward’s debut The Girl from Rawblood took her “eight years to write,” she reveals on this podcast, likening the experience to a seance. And it also won the 2016 August Derleth, making her the only woman to have won the prize three times.She also talks about the curse of the second novel (hers was Little Eve) and cautions, “Don’t miss your deadline, kids.” Hashtag Helpful Advice. The book bombed but the descriptions of why are fascinating and helped set the stage for Needless Street to explode.Her short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and have been shortlisted for various prizes. She lives in London and Devon.
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Debb

#writingthoughts I write, horror mostly. Between wondering just what media I've consumed to come up with some scenes I've written, this beastie in my current WIP, is ripping the piss. See, it misbehaves, as creatures of mine do, one literally went "Kill everybody?" and murdered my cast. This beastie wants more people to know about it, specifically MC's friend. Oh the joys.
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Margaret Sefton

@Melbin_Mike I've written fiction re: mental illness from both a first-person singular point of view and a first-person plural point of view. If one is portraying a mentally ill person/people via 1st person, there is an opportunity to demonstrate what you are describing by how the narrative is told. For example, does the narrator illustrate this both/and capability? However, sts lit magazines may shy away from publishing this.

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Luna Station Quarterly

That’s Not Horror!: Elements of the Genre

When I decided to write, I knew exactly the genre I would delve into. I wanted to create realities suspended in darkness. Atmospheric and beautifully eerie. Something to make folks shriek and shiver with delight. Unfortunately for me, horror is decidedly a tricky genre to master.

Beside the already daunting task of pulling new ideas out of th

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