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A volume of essays on the craft of horror writing, edited by Mort Castle, with contributions from dozens of well-known HWA members. An invaluable addition to any writer’s library.

Contents:

Foreword: The Horror Writers Association: A Shockingly Brief and Informal History of the HWA by Stanley Wiater

Editor’s Introduction by Mort Castle

Part One: Horror, Literature, and Horror Literature

The Madness of Art by Joyce Carol Oates
Acceptance Speech: The 2003 National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by Stephen King
Why We Write Horror by Michael McCarty

Part Two: An Education in Horror

What You Are Meant to Know: 21 Horror Classics by Robert Weinberg
Avoiding What’s Been Done to Death by Ramsey Campbell
Workshops of Horror (and Seminars and Conferences) by Tom Monteleone
Degrees of Dread by Michael A. Arnzen

Part Three: Developing Horror Concepts

A World of Dark and Disturbing Ideas by J.N. Williamson
Mirror, Mirror by Wayne Allen Sallee
Going There: Strategies for the Things That Scare You by Michael Marano
Honest Lies and Darker Truths: History and Horror Fiction by Richard Gilliam

Part Four: Horror Crafting

Such Horrible People by Tina Jens
A Hand on the Shoulder by Joe R. Lansdale
Eerie Events and Horrible Happenings: Plotting Short Horror Fiction by Nicholas Kaufmann
Reality and the Waking Nightmare: Setting and Character in Horror Fiction by Mort Castle
“He Said?” She Asked: Some Thoughts About Dialogue by David Morrell
Keep It Moving, Maniacs: Writing Action Scenes in Horror Fiction by Jay R. Bonansinga
The Dark Enchantment of Style by Bruce Holland Rogers

Part Five: Horror, Art, Innovation, Excellence

Innovation in Horror by Jeanne Cavelos
Depth of Field: Horror and Literary Fiction by Nick Mamatas
Splat Goes the Hero: Visceral Horror by Jack Ketchum
Darkness Absolute: The Standards of Excellence in Horror Fiction by Douglas E. Winter
On Horror: A Conversation With Harlan Ellison and Richard Gilliam

Part Six: Tradition and Modern Times

No More Silver Mirrors: The Monster in Our Times by Karen E. Taylor
Fresh Blood From Old Wounds: The Alchemist Meets the Biochemist by Joseph Curtin
More Simply Human by Tracy Knight
The Possibility of the Impossible by Tom Piccirilli
Take a Scalpel to Those Tropes by W.D. Gagliani
That Spectred Isle: Tradition, Sensibility, and Delivery or Ghosts? What Ghosts? by Steven Savile
New Horrors: A Roundtable Discussion of Horror Today and Tomorrow by Joe Nassise

Part Seven: Genre and Subgenre

Archetypes and Fearful Allure: Writing Erotic Horror by Nancy Kilpatrick
Writing for the New Pulps: Horror Theme Anthologies by John Maclay
Freaks and Fiddles, Banjos and Beasts: Writing Redneck Horror by Weston Ochse
Youth Gone Wild by Lee Thomas
Writing Horror Comic Books And Graphic Novels by David Campiti
Acts of Madness: Writing Horror for the Stage by Lisa Morton
Fear Spins Off: The Tie-In Novel Comes Into Its Own by Yvonne Navarro
The Play’s the Thing on the Doorstep: Writing Video and Roleplaying Games by Richard E. Dansky
Now Fear This: Writing Horror for Audio Theater by Scott Hickey and Robert Madia
Good Characters and Cool Kills: Writing the Horror Screenplay by Brendan Deneen

Part Eight: Horror Business: Selling, Marketing, Promoting

Dark Fluidity: Online Research and Marketing Resources by Judi Rohrig
The Small Press: Filling Shelves with Rare Books by John Everson
Sharing the Creeps: Marketing Short Horror Fiction, version 2.0 by Edo van Belkom
For Love or Money: Six Marketing Myths by Bev Vincent
One Reader at a Tine: Promoting Your Horror Novel by Scott Nicholson

Afterword: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells by Harlan Ellison

A collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge.

Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard environmentalists hosts a fundraiser with a gory twist in "An Evening with Al Gore"...In an all-new Dresden Files story from Jim Butcher, when it comes to tracking deadly paranormal doings, there's no such thing as a "Day Off" for the Chicago P.D.'s wizard detective, Harry Dresden...Sherrilyn Kenyon turns a cubicle-dwelling MBA with no life into a demon-fighting seraph with one hell of an afterlife in "Where Angels Fear to Tread"...Celebrity necromancer Jaime Vegas is headlining a sold-out séance tour, but behind the scenes, a disgruntled ghost has a bone to pick, in Kelley Armstrong's "The Ungrateful Dead." Plus tales guaranteed to get under your skin -- in a good way -- from

Janet Berliner Don D'Ammassa Nancy Holder Nancy KilpatrickJ. A. Konrath and F. Paul Wilson Joe R. Lansdale Will LudwigsenSharyn McCrumb Mark Onspaugh Mike Resnick Steven SavileD. L. Snell Eric James Stone Jeff Strand Lucien Soulban Matt Venne Christopher Welch

So let the blood flow and laughter reign -- because when it comes to facing our deepest, darkest fears, a little humor goes a long way!

The Big Questions of Life (and Death)

Can a killer’s basement blood-feast be a tax write-off (under Entertainment)? Not if Vlad the IRS agent nails him first in Heather Graham’s “Death and Taxes.”

What does a pack of hungry she-wolves do to solve their man troubles? Ladies Night Out takes a wicked turn in “Dog Tired (of the Drama!)” by L. A. Banks.

How far will an elite call girl go to beat a murder rap? Stuck with a dead client in a luxury L.A. hotel room, she might strike a costly bargain with a woman of unearthly powers in Allison Brennan’s “Her Lucky Day.”

Who actually writes those tabloid stories about Bigfoot? Meet a journalist of the unexplained (she’s 50 percent demon) and her boyfriend (he’s 100 percent thief), as they heat up a museum exhibition that’s also a soul-snatching battleground in “Lucifer’s Daughter” by Kelley Armstrong.

Plus tales from

KEVIN J. ANDERSON & JANIS IAN • SAM W. ANDERSON • MIKE BARON

EDWARD BRYANT • AMY STERLING CASIL • DEREK CLENDENING DON D’AMMASSA

BRIAN J. HATCHER • NINA KIRIKI HOFFMAN NANCY KIRKPATRICK • J. A. KONRATH

JOHN R. LITTLE • SHARYN MCCRUMB

SCOTT NICHOLSON • MARK ONSPAUGH • AARON POLSON • DANIEL PYLE

MIKE RESNICK & LEZLI ROBYN • JEFF RYAN • D. L. SNELL • LUCIEN SOULBAN

ERIC JAMES STONE • JEFF STRAND • JORDAN SUMMERS

JOEL A. SUTHERLAND • STEVE RASNIC TEM • CHRISTOPHER WELCH

Sink your teeth into a smorgasbord of macabre morsels laced with horrific humor in this third Blood Lite anthology! Whether you shriek with laughter or scream in fear…well, that’s simply a matter of taste.

Jim Butcher’s wizardly PI Harry Dresden pranks some high-tech monster seekers—and attempts to save a friend’s son whose life-energy is slowly being drained by an unknown adversary in “I Was a Teenage Bigfoot.” The Author from Hell has dropped dead, but a stressed-out editor is harassed by her emails from beyond the grave in Sherrilyn Kenyon’s “A Day in the Life.” The flesh is weak—and possibly even rotting—as a teenage virgin werewolf discovers on a visit to a brothel in Kelley Armstrong’s “V Plates.” Murder comes alive in “Mannequin,” by Heather Graham, as two thrill-seeking couples “axe” for trouble at a B&B with a bloody history.

Plus twenty-six other tales to tempt and terrorize you. . . .

The Horror Writers Association presents one of the most unusual horror anthologies you'll ever read! Follow a fiendish carnival as it travels America in this anthology of interwoven short stories by eighteen of fiction's darkest stars. Available for the first time in e-book.

Contents:

Winter Quarters by F. Paul Wilson
Okefenokee Swamp, GA by Brad Strickland
Athens, GA by Gregory Nicoll
Sikeston, MO by Rex Miller
Leesville, LA by Nancy Kilpatrick
Bois D’Arc, TX by Scott Cupp
Palomita, NM by Kathryn Ptacek
Venice, CA by Douglas Borton
LaCanada, CA by Morgan Fields
Seattle, WA by Richard Lee Byers
Elm Haven, IL by Dan Simmons
Chicago, IL by Yvonne Navarro
Battle Creek, MI by Steven Spruill
Drood Hollow, WV by Lee Moler
Bird-in-Hand, PA by Chet Williamson
Rochester, NY by Craig Shaw Gardner
Quarry, MA by R. Patrick Gates
Oyster Bay, NY by Thomas F. Monteleone
The Pine Barrensby F. Paul Wilson

Multiple Bram Stoker Award–winning author Jonathan Maberry compiles more than twenty stories and poems—written by members of the Horror Writers Association—in this terrifying collection about worst fears.

What scares you? Things that go bump in the night? Being irreversibly different? A brutal early death? The unknown?

This collection contains stories and poetry by renowned writers such as R. L. Stine, Neal and Brendan Shusterman, and Ellen Hopkins—all members of the Horror Writers Association—about what they fear most. The stories include mermaids, ghosts, and personal demons, and are edited by Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker award winner and author of the Rot & Ruin series.

Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, co-edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.

In addition to stories about scheming jack-o’-lanterns, vengeful ghosts, otherworldly changelings, disturbingly realistic haunted attractions, masks that cover terrifying faces, murderous urban legends, parties gone bad, cult Halloween movies, and trick or treating in the future, Haunted Nights also offers terrifying and mind-bending explorations of related holidays like All Souls’ Day, Dia de los Muertos, and Devil’s Night.

“With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfbane Seeds” by Seanan McGuire
“Dirtmouth” by Stephen Graham Jones”
“A Small Taste of the Old Countr” by Jonathan Maberry
“Wick’s End” by Joanna Parypinski
“The Seventeen Year Itch” by Garth Nix
“A Flicker of Light on Devil’s Night” by Kate Jonez
“Witch-Hazel” by Jeffrey Ford
“Nos Galen Gaeaf” by Kelley Armstrong
“We’re Never Inviting Amber Again” by S. P. Miskowski
“Sisters” by Brian Evenson
“All Through the Night” by Elise Forier Edie
“A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds” by Eric J. Guignard
“The Turn” by Paul Kane
“Jack” by Pat Cadigan
“Lost in the Dark” by John Langan
“The First Lunar Halloween” by John R. Little

The New York Times bestselling author presents 35 “bite-sized treats for young horror aficionados”—with new stories by R.L. Stine, Madeleine Roux and more (Kirkus).

Flesh-hungry ogres? Brains full of spiders? Haunted houses you can’t escape? This middle grade anthology from the Horror Writers Association has it all! Curated by master of the macabre Jonathan Maberry, Don’t Turn Out the Lights is a chilling tribute to Alvin Schwartz’s classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.

With ghastly illustrations from Iris Compiet, this chilling collection features new stories by: Linda D. Addison, Courtney Alameda, Jonathan Auxier, Gary A. Braunbeck, Z Brewer, Aric Cushing, John Dixon, Tananarive Due, Jamie Ford, Kami Garcia, Christopher Golden, Tonya Hurley, Catherine Jordan, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Alethea Kontis, N.R. Lambert, Laurent Linn, Amy Lukavics, Barry Lyga, D.J. MacHale, Josh Malerman, James A. Moore, Michael Northrop, Micol Ostow, Joanna Parypinksi, Brendan Reichs, Madeleine Roux, R.L. Stine, Margaret Stohl, Gaby Triana, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rosario Urrea, Kim Ventrella, Sheri White, T.J. Wooldridge, Brenna Yovanoff

An anthology of original horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award® winners Vince A. Liaguno and Rena Mason that showcases authors from historically excluded backgrounds telling terrifying tales of what it means to be, or merely to seem, "other."
Offering new stories from some of the biggest names in horror as well as some of the hottest up-and-coming talents, Other Terrors will provide the ultimate reading experience for horror fans who want to examine fear of "the other."

Be they of a different culture, a different background, a different sexual orientation or gender identity, a different belief system, or a different skin color, some people simply aren't part of the community's majority—and are perceived as scary. Humans are almost instinctively inclined to fear what's different, and there are a multitude of individuals who have spent far too long on the outside looking in. And the thing about the outside is . . . it's much larger than you think.
In Other Terrors, horror writers from a multitude of underrepresented backgrounds have created stories of everyday people, places, and things where something shifts, striking a deeper, much more primal, chord of fear. Are our eyes playing tricks on us, or is there something truly sinister lurking under the surface of what we thought we knew? And who among us is really the other, after all?

CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: Tananarive Due, Jennifer McMahon, S.A. Cosby, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu, Michael Thomas Ford, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Christina Sng, Denise Dumars, Usman T. Malik, Annie Neugebauer, Gabino Iglesias, Hailey Piper, Nathan Carson, Shanna Heath, Tracy Cross, Linda D. Addison, Maxwell I. Gold, Larissa Glasser, Eugen Bacon, Holly Lyn Walrath, Jonathan Lees, M. E. Bronstein, Michael H. Hanson

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

Get ready for a terrifying spin on some of literature’s most beloved tales—no story is safe! From Captain Hook’s run-in with dark magic to Sherlock Holmes narrowly escaping graveyard spirits to a happily never after for Cinderella, this horror anthology is anything but a bedtime story. In this terrifying new collection for young readers, the best-loved stories from the literary canon are revisited and reimagined with a deadly twist by some of the top authors working in middle grade today.

Featuring tales from New York Times bestselling authors Jonathan Maberry and Kelley Armstrong, Carlos Hernandez, Lisa Morton, Maurice Broaddus, and many others, this collection will haunt you long after you turn the last page. Read on—if you dare!

The complete list of writers: Teel James Glenn, Maxwell I. Gold, Lisa Morton, Tanvir Ahmed, Kelley Armstrong, Maurice Broaddus, Delilah S. Dawson, Joe R. Lansdale, Kristi Petersen Schoonover, Carlos Hernandez, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Sarwat Chadda, Ai Jiang, Jonathan Maberry, Nancy Holder, Nathan Carson, and edited by Eric J. Guignard.