I’ve been on a journey of sorts over the past decade. I wanted to understand--intellectually, but also on a blood and bone level--the elemen...

( FYI, this post is part of my How to Write a Genre Story series. By rights I should have titled it How to Write a Genre Story: Setting and ...

The uncanny “undoubtedly belongs to all that is terrible—to all that arouses dread and creeping horror ...”  —Sigmund Freud Have you...

I’ve been reading and writing Gothic stories all my life, though I didn’t always know that’s what they were. As a girl I tore throug...

The Character Opening The character story opening is my favorite kind of opening, though it’s arguably the trickiest to pull ...

I love Halloween. Always have. Perhaps that’s why I love a good horror story. The first horror story I heard was a spine-tingling tal...

Here are eight tips on how to write horror from Brad Falchuk, the co-creator of American Horror Story . These pointers come by way of...

This is the second part of my two part series on how to write a terrifyingly good horror story . Yesterday I covered points one through...

( This is part one of a two part series, to read the next part click here: 17 Ways To Write A Terrifyingly Good Horror Story, Part 2 of 2...

One of the most difficult things about creating a book cover is selecting a font. I'll try Impact and maybe Engravers MT and then rea...