Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic

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Aces of Weird: Watership Down (Martin Rosen, 1978)
Remembered as the kids' movie that terrified a generation, this classic British fantasy still casts a deep, dark and enthralling spell
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What Hawk the Slayer Got Right
Defending a sword and sorcery kinda-classic
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Science Fiction Double Feature: The Crow (comic book vs. movie)
The 1989 comic by James O'Barr and the 1994 movie starring Brandon Lee share the same melancholy heart, though it beats in very different ways
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Aces of Weird: Starve Acre (Andrew Michael Hurley, 2019)
This bleak and atmospheric folk horror novel unearths new horrors in old haunts
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Science Fiction Double Feature: Planet of the Vampires (1965), It! The Terror From Beyond Space (1958)
Did these drive-in classics really inspire the 'Alien' franchise?
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Evolve or Die: Is this the End for Sword and Sorcery?
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Mapping the Labyrinth: A No-Mucking-About Beginner’s Guide to Starting Out as a Writer
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Lessons From Earthsea
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What Hawk the Slayer Got Right
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Lessons From Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 'A Wizard of Earthsea' is a classic, no question. But does anyone still care? Writers and creators of fantasy, neglect this book at…
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Mapping the Labyrinth: A No-Mucking-About Beginner’s Guide to Starting Out as a Writer
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young person in possession of a desire to write, must be in want of advice from an old fart
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Evolve or Die: Is this the End for Sword and Sorcery?
Can the genre ever move on from Robert E. Howard's Conan? How can writers possibly innovate within this narrow fantasy subgenre? Is the sword and…
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Helpless Monsters, Hopeless Writers, and How to Write Horror Comics
Ones from the vaults...
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M.R. James and the Craft of Fear
Learn the subtleties of writing terror from a master of the scary ghost story
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Old Sorcery, New Edge: Q&A with Molly Tanzer
The award-winning author of 'The Diabolist's Library' trilogy on her route to writing, taming research and penning the official resurrection of Jirel of…
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The Horror Masterpiece You May Have Missed
How 'The Rolling Giant' builds tension, embraces the uncanny and gives viewers the virtual creeps
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Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic
Agent of Weird: Exploring the Write Fantastic
Welcome connoisseurs and creators of fantasy, horror and sci-fi (and all the weird that’s in-between) as we uncover the techniques that make these stories work. From the award-lacking writer of comics and fiction for Warhammer, Star Wars, and Judge Dredd.
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