by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 17, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
There can be some significant genre blur between neo-noir/crime fiction and horror fiction; noir by its very definition is dark, and when it plumbs the most extreme depths of murder and the evil in the human psyche, it’s inherently horrific. Nicholas Kaufmann...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 14, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
“The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a brilliant 1892 story that presents the first-person chronicle of a woman in a stifling marriage driven mad by spirit-crushing, enforced boredom and her horrified obsession with the floridly ugly wallpaper in the...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 4, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
Over at SF Signal this week, I and other authors and editors such as Ann VanderMeer and John Klima participated in a Mind Meld on Embracing the Weird: Why We Love Weird Fiction. It was a great discussion; check it out! I do love weird fiction; one of the things I like...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Oct 3, 2015 | Columns
The Thief of Always is a children’s novel by Clive Barker. First published in 1992, it tells the tale of 10-year-old Harvey Swick who on one rainy evening is visited by an entity named Rictus who later lures him away to a place called Holiday House. (Warning: spoilers...
by Lucy A. Snyder | Sep 24, 2015 | Columns, Horror World Library
My nonfiction writing book Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide has done pretty well for itself. It won the Bram Stoker Award earlier this year, and most every review has been positive. Readers seem to appreciate the...
by Jess Landry | Sep 7, 2015 | Columns
Hello everyone, and thank you for reading my guest post. My name is Mike Phillips and my new book is Hazard of Shadows. I have been asked to talk about some of the more interesting characters in the book, the goblins. In folklore and literature, goblins have always...
