Showing posts with label Stephen King. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen King. Show all posts
Thursday, April 03, 2025

What's Horror For?

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As I mentioned last week, one of the speakers at this year's ICFA proposed that horror articulates feelings and experiences for which we...
Friday, January 31, 2025

Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: If It Bleeds Collection by Stephen King by Karen S. Wiesner

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  Oldies But Goodies {Put This One on Your TBR List} Book Review: If It Bleeds Collection by Stephen King by Karen S. Wiesner   I...
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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Quantity Versus Quality?

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Are quantity and quality incompatible strategies or goals? Not according to the observations in these and other similar essays: Quantity L...
Thursday, May 09, 2024

If We Could Do It Over Again

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Recently, I've often pondered the question, "What if you could live your life over?" Many works of science fiction and fantasy...
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Art Versus Life

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A work of art (specifically, literature, including poetry such as song lyrics) does not necessarily reveal the life or personality of the ar...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Hooking Without Overwhelming

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One of my publishers hosts weekly author chats. I recently read the transcript of a chat that warned against "overwhelming" the re...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

Mental Illness in Horror

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The Horror Writers Association's monthly newsletter has started running a column about the treatment of mental illness in horror fiction...
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Thursday, November 17, 2022

The Purpose of Horror

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What is horror fiction (whether in print or on film) good for? My parents certainly took a dim view of my fervent interest in the genre, beg...
Thursday, September 22, 2022

Current Events: To Write or Not to Write?

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The website of WRITER'S DIGEST has an article about whether authors should include references to the COVID-19 pandemic in contemporary f...
Thursday, March 03, 2022

Ranking Dangers

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The March-April issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER contains an article titled "The World's Most Deadly Animal," by Harriet Hall. The ...
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Thursday, January 20, 2022

Presently Tense

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Does anybody really like fiction narrated in the present tense? Apparently, to my bafflement, many people actually do, since that device see...
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Thursday, May 27, 2021

Human Domestication

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Here's a cartoon, funny in a slightly warped way, about the alleged negative consequences of Homo sapiens domesticating ourselves in the...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

Book-Love in a Time of Cholera

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That's the title of Brian Attebery's introduction to the latest issue of the JOURNAL OF THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS. He discusses how ...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

Horror as a Coping Mechanism

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It comes as no surprise to me that a recent psychological study suggests horror fans may be uniquely well prepared to confront scary realiti...
Thursday, August 06, 2020

Dislikable Characters

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What does it take to turn you off fictional characters so thoroughly you don't want to read about them? Even if I dislike some aspects o...
Thursday, November 07, 2019

Worlds with Depth

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The Fall/Winter issue of MYTHLORE includes an article by Katherine Sas on creating the "impression of depth" in a work of fiction ...
Thursday, September 05, 2019

Deep Time

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The September 2019 issue of the SMITHSONIAN magazine contains two articles I found especially interesting. "The Homecoming": An ...
Thursday, December 06, 2018

Alternate Timelines

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One of my favorite authors, S. M. Stirling, recently launched a new alternate-history series with BLACK CHAMBER, published in July of this y...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

The Value of Horror

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"Horror Is Good for You (and Even Better for Your Kids)," according to Greg Ruth. I wish I'd had this article to show to my pa...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

IT on FIlm

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I watched the theatrical movie of Stephen King's IT this week (more precisely, "IT: Chapter One"). To me, whether a film adapt...
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