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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:30 am Posts: 329 Location: Michigan
We're revamping the web site, Hashy put together a reaaaallly nifty design muahahaha It's still being made but you can check out the progress if you want.
On the new site I'll have tons more room! Soooo I wanted to make a page dedicated to promoting the horror genre. I'd like create a massive 'info center' for it that includes links to anything we think people would like to see or read about.
However as most of you are aware of my pet peeve...(ok ok one of them :P ) I'd like to dedicate a lot of linkage and concentrate on dispelling the myths of the horror genre. Ie - horror does NOT equate to splatterpunk etc. That it involves the emotions (fear, chills, disquiet, etc) and not necessarily gore.
J.L Benet has already graciously offered to let me display his links on the page -- he's done a ton to help promote the genre, really quite impressive, including study guides and class notes for teachers to help them use horror novels in their writing and study courses in schools.
If you have any links you think can fit on the page or know of others who would be interested let me (or them) know! If you want to write something yourself that'd be great too! Just host it and give me the link.
Together we just might bang hard enough to get people to realize that horror is a valid and fun genre that isn't chained to the splatterpunk idea of the Chainsaws and Saws and Friday The 13ths.
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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:30 am Posts: 329 Location: Michigan
Links much like the blog post you wrote up about the Horror genre. Anything that sheds insight into the horror genre and puts it in the light of a valid genre.
Ie - horror writers aren't just hacks that sit there and pour blood on their pages but they actually have stories, good characters etc.
In the 80s the publishers pumped out so much crap under the horror title that it earned the rep of being junk fiction. Nothing but mindless violence, splattering blood and low quality writing. Unfortunately that rep still holds a grip on readers and the general public.
What do you mean by horror gothic? Do you mean the tendency of some Riceish/paranormal romance people turning monsters in to fluffy things?
_________________ <b>~Raven Bower
Author of Horror & Dark Fantasy
I am definitly of the same mind set about horror. That's mostly why I enjoy the works of Ramsey Campbell so much. He is all about the subtle horror that creeps up on you. He doesn't need to rely on gore, because his implied menace is so terrific. I don't have a website or anything so I can't help you with the links I'm afriad. I am unfortunately very low tech. Sorry.
I'll keep an eye out, but I tend to spend more time here or listening to podcasts than doing much net surfing. If I come across something, I'll be sure to let you know.
Joined: Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:24 pm Posts: 883 Location: New Jersey
Here is another post I wrote recently. It's incomplete, but the more I write about this, I'll keep you posted There's a couple of others in my head, and I get impatient while blogging sometimes. The next one is really going to be splitting hairs over lovecrafts.
(By the way, my blog is nothing but stuff like this. I like playing literary critic with horror and science fiction. Makes some of those graduate seminars I took seem useful
(By the way, Lovecrafts "Supernatural Horror in Literature" should be easy to find, and cheap, seeing that Dover has a $8 version floating around. Some in vogue might want the Joshi annotated version, but Hippocampus press hasn't impressed me, lately, with their order processing.
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Joined: Wed Nov 22, 2006 3:24 pm Posts: 883 Location: New Jersey
Regarding the "gothic" -- let me chew on that a little and get back to you with a long, drawn out, boring answer (which will probably double as a blog post.).
I consider gothic fiction and horror fiction slightly different creatures. It's not the rice paranormal romance, but something far more deeper. Gothic is a separate literary tradition in my book, then horror. Lovecraft and Poe are not gothic, but other works of Horror are.
As I said, let me think about this.
now....back to editing "My Boyfriend is a s Sea Monster." (that's not the title!!!)
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