Inspiring ghouls of the fictional world of horror everywhere.
Posts tagged ‘The Art of Terror’
There’s a saying floating around the Internet that says ‘writers be crazy’, or as the ever eloquent Chuck Wendig puts it ‘writers be fucking moonbats’…well there are some writers that go a step further than this, there are some writers that should be locked into…
As you can all see, we have a new look! I hope you find it easier to move around within the depths of HHHB & enjoy the revamp. If anyone finds a glitch, problem or just has something to add to help make this blog…
Exposition can be useful: “a man walks into a bar…” – useful information that is required in order to advance the plot. Or it can be clunky: “oh and he had a duck on his head, did I mention that?” – annoying, blundering, in your…
As horror writers we owe it to our readers, and to ourselves, to tell the whole damn story – warts an all! Leave the gritty bits in, expose the hidden horrors that lurk in the shadows, pull back the curtain to reveal the true…
When you mention horror to a non-horror fan they immediately think of vampires, Frankenstein’s monster (or Frankenstein as they would call it), and supernatural killers that somehow always manage to crawl back from Hell just in time for a sequel, but there is so much…
There are many people out there that believe in the idea that what you can’t see can be much scarier than what you can see. The idea is that if you ‘see’ the monster you might think “is that it?”, but if there’s a…
Hello my little fiendish darlings. Come in, sit down. Make yourself at home..sit & listen a while. This week the wonderful T E Grau has popped over to The HHHB to offer us a peek inside the darker side of his mind…in the shadows of…
A great little musing on what fear is all about when it comes to writing, & reading, horror fiction. Not the massively intertwined plots, full of endless underlying threads of dread…the seemingly innocent. Objects that we see everyday can bring about a small twist within…
Unfortunately for the purposes of this article I’m going to have to go there… Stop with the zombies already! It hurts me, physically pains me, as a zombie fan to say that the Zombocalypse idea has been done to death…but it really has. Yes, you…
David Moody – What Scares Me People scare me. There, I said it. When it comes down to it, you can keep your ghosts, your aliens and your monsters, because there’s nothing that frightens me more than the rest of the human race. It’s not…
(Later than scheduled, sorry about that folks! Better late than never though, ey?) Whether they admit or not most people are fascinated by death. It is, after all, the only thing we all have in common. As horror writers we tend to deal with…
What can I say about tonight’s guest? He’s worked as a mental health worker, pumped gas (not from his bottom of course!), Been an ambulance attendant, a soldier in Vietnam…now he writes short stories & novels to send shivers down our spines & nightmares calling…
Picking up on a comment from last week’s post I’m going to expand on one of the questions raised in my Getting Started article. The question is ‘can you commit to writing this novel?” Well…can you? Committing to a novel doesn’t just mean adopting a…
Reblogged from parlor of horror: Versatile Blogger Award – parlorofhorror I have to give a big thanks to Tyson Carter, of Head In A Vice blog, for nominating me for the versatile Blogger Award. In a world where it is hard to get recognition for anything…
As you can see from the recent ‘What Scares You’ series on HHHB our fears and worries range far and wide. There are universal fears that most of us experience at one time or another, and there are irrational fears that differ from person to…
This week I’m proud to have author & President of Dark Continents Publishing, David M. Youngquist chatting to us about his fears of those hairy little vermin & inappropriate substitutes for toilet paper whilst roaming through the woods… Emma asked me to write my little…
Look to any horror book or film and there will always be at least one small aspect that doesn’t follow reality. Even the most ‘simple’ of storylines (the ones without dark lords, demons, or deities) will contain some element of fantasy. A scene or event…
This week I am proud to present to you writer & editor extraordinaire Ellen Datlow. Ellen not only been awarded the Hugo Award four times, her vast array of editing work has also been recognized with three, yes, THREE Bram Stoker Awards, two Shirley Jackson Awards, two International Horror…
I’ve been asked by Emma to join HHHB as the resident horror author guru…please, save your applause until the end…I’ll be covering a wide variety of writing related posts including such classics as ‘How to make a MILLION pounds from your debut novel’; ‘How to write…
On the eighteenth day of the month of June, in an early year of a decade not too long before our own, the human race suddenly encountered a deadly threat to its very existence. And this terrifying enemy surfaced, as such enemies often do, in…
This week I’m proud to present Aaron Dries, his own introduction to himself speaks for itself: ‘ ‘ In 1984 Wes Craven unleashed Freddy Krueger on the world. That year also saw lonely childrenriding Luck Dragons in “The Neverending Story”. And somewhere between these two…
We all know about the whole ‘end of times’ scenario, we’ve seen ‘The Rapture’ not come & then go, the Mayans got it wrong too (we should have all died off seven months ago according to the dates compared with our calendar!). Well, here’s a new take on the…
Tonight we have Sheldon Higdon, author & award-winning screen writer, telling us what scares him… ‘What Scares Me? That’s a question I think every horror writer is asked at some point, and a valid question too. I’d like to say that it’s the feel of…
Great little article on the real-life influence of characters upon the movie viewer… Top 10 Supernatural Reality Altering Horror Characters | HorrorNews.net.
Writing. Easy, right? Must be! Putting random words in the right(ish) order…can’t be that hard?! Well, as most of you know, it is. It REALLY is. Hemingway put it perfectly: ‘ There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter…
J is for one of my favourite elements of horror fiction, both on page & on screen… J-Horror. I suppose I can say that my love, infatuation, with the Japanese & other Asian horror aspect of the horror genre started with Ringu by Koji Suzuki.…
