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Index
Cover
Title Page
Permissions
Acknowledgments
About HWA
Table of Contents
Foreword: The Horror Writers Association: A Shockingly Brief and Informal History of the HWA
Editor’s Introduction
Part One: Horror, Literature, and Horror Literature
The Madness of Art
Acceptance Speech: The 2003 National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Why We Write Horror
Part Two: An Education in Horror
What You Are Meant to Know: Twenty-One Horror Classics
Avoiding What’s Been Done to Death
Workshops of Horror (and Seminars and Conferences)
Degrees of Dread: Horror in Higher Education
Part Three: Developing Horror Concepts
A World of Dark and Disturbing Ideas
Mirror, Mirror
Going There: Strategies for Writing the Things That Scare You
Honest Lies and Darker Truths: History and Horror Fiction
Part Four: Horror Crafting
Such Horrible People
A Hand on the Shoulder
Eerie Events and Horrible Happenings: Plotting Short Horror Fiction
Reality and the Waking Nightmare: Setting and Character in Horror Fiction
“He Said?” She Asked: Some Thoughts About Dialogue
Keep It Moving, Maniacs: Writing Action Scenes in Horror Fiction
The Dark Enchantment of Style
Part Five: Horror, Art, Innovation, Excellence
Innovation in Horror
Depth of Field: Horror and Literary Fiction
Splat Goes the Hero: Visceral Horror
Darkness Absolute: The Standards of Excellence in Horror Fiction
On Horror: A Conversation With Harlan Ellison
Part Six: Tradition and Modern Times
No More Silver Mirrors: The Monster in Our Times
Fresh Blood From Old Wounds: The Alchemist Meets the Biochemist
More Simply Human
The Possibility of the Impossible
Take a Scalpel to Those Tropes
That Spectred Isle: Tradition, Sensibility, and Delivery Or Ghosts? What Ghosts?
New Horrors: A Roundtable Discussion of Horror Today and Tomorrow
Part Seven: Genre and Subgenre
Archetypes and Fearful Allure: Writing Erotic Horror
Writing for the New Pulps: Horror-Themed Anthologies
Freaks and Fiddles, Banjos and Beasts: Writing Redneck Horror
Youth Gone Wild
Writing Horror Comic Books—And Graphic Novels
Acts of Madness: Writing Horror for the Stage
Fear Spins Off: The Tie-In Novel Comes Into Its Own
The Play’s the Thing on the Doorstep: Writing Video and Role-Playing Games
Now Fear This: Writing Horror for Audio Theater
Good Characters and Cool Kills: Writing the Horror Screenplay
Part Eight: Horror Business: Selling, Marketing, Promoting
Dark Fluidity: Online Research and Marketing Resources
The Small Press: Filling Shelves With Rare Books
Sharing the Creeps: Marketing Short Horror Fiction, Version 2.0
For Love or Money: Six Marketing Myths
One Reader at a Time: Promoting Your Horror Novel
Afterword
Afterword: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells
The HWA Members Who Contributed to This Book
Copyright
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