Tag Archives: Horror

5 Steps to Writing Like Stephen King, the King of Horror

Wondering how to make your writing like Stephen King? One does not simply become, “The King of Horror,” because their surname is King, and their preferred genre is horror. No, King earned his title and a spot among the best horror authors by having over 60 books published, 350 million plus copies sold, and 12 […]

5 Tips for Writing Horror (+3 Issues to Avoid)

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, published in 1764, is widely considered to be the first official horror novel. But horror stories, or at least ghost stories, go back as far as people do—scary folklore, folklore around death and the afterlife, and myths about horrible beasts, curses, and so on have been part of […]

17 of the Finest Horror Authors to Encourage Your Writing

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of reading an author whose writing is so good you can’t help but feel a little envious. The writers capable of making us fall in love with a genre as a reader are often the very same ones we look to for inspiration when we wish to try our […]

My Favourite Area of interest Horror Style: Creepy Stories About F*cked Up Films That F*ck Folks Up

I’ll be honest: it’s going to take me a long time to watch all of Archive 81. As I have previously discussed, I am a tremendous scaredy-cat when it comes to filmed media. This is a problem, because I want to watch Archive 81, as it sits squarely in the center of one of my […]

My Favourite Area of interest Horror Style: Creepy Stories About F*cked Up Films That F*ck Folks Up

I’ll be honest: it’s going to take me a long time to watch all of Archive 81. As I have previously discussed, I am a tremendous scaredy-cat when it comes to filmed media. This is a problem, because I want to watch Archive 81, as it sits squarely in the center of one of my […]