by Lucy A. Snyder | Nov 5, 2015 | Columns
Choke Hold is the 2011 sequel to Christa Faust’s Money Shot and offers the first-person narrative of former porn actress Angel Dare as she tries to save the mixed martial artist son of a former lover from being murdered by gangsters. Faust offers a fast-paced, gritty,...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Nov 1, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King is the second volume in The Dark Tower, his epic, cross-genre novel series. I enjoyed the first novel, The Gunslinger, but for me, this is where The Dark Tower really starts to get interesting. One of the aspects of the...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 31, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope everyone has had a great holiday. (Here at the Snyder-Braunbeck household, we decorated the front yard and helped his little great niece go trick-or-treating.) In the past few months, I’ve been reading Stephen King’s Dark...
by Jess Landry | Oct 30, 2015 | Columns
I’ve said before, writing is frustrating, pleasurable, infuriating, and rewarding—often all at the same time. The ferociously inimitable Dorothy Parker once very astutely said, “I hate writing, I love having written.” It sums up an author’s emotional dichotomy...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 24, 2015 | Columns
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming. – “The Call of Cthulhu” by H.P. Lovecraft So, I was at a Halloween party discussing rum and elder...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 17, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
How does a horror novel become a classic? First of all, it has to be good, or at least unusually compelling. But quality alone doesn’t ensure that a book will become a classic: it also has to be read, admired, and spread widely enough to inspire other creators....
