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Audio of Weird: The Red Room (H.G. Wells, 1896)
Listen to a classic ghost story from the father of science fiction
Jul 31
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Alec Worley
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Building a Labyrinth of Liminal Horror
Checking into Daisy Johnson's The Hotel (2024)
Jun 26
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Alec Worley
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Who Goes There? (1938) vs The Thing (1982)
John W. Campbell's classic novella of Golden Age science fiction and John Carpenter's modern horror masterpiece - both absorb new meanings in the age of…
Mar 26
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Fantastic Beasts and How to Write Them
Some Jurassic examples of great monster-writing
Jan 28
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Alec Worley
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Starve Acre (2019): How to Farm a Field of Horrors
How Andrew Michael Hurley’s compulsive folk horror novel casts its bleak and atmospheric spell
Aug 20, 2024
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Alec Worley
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Lessons From Earthsea
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 'A Wizard of Earthsea' may be a classic, but does anyone still care? Writers and creators of fantasy, neglect this book at your…
Jul 24, 2024
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Alec Worley
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A No-Mucking-About Beginner's Guide to Starting Out as a Writer
Mapping the labyrinth
Jun 14, 2024
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Alec Worley
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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…
Jun 5, 2024
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Alec Worley
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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
Mar 14, 2024
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Alec Worley
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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…
Feb 12, 2024
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Alec Worley
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Over By Christmas (a short story)
A Weird winter's tale of lost time, lost hearts, and a devil's bargain - published here for the first time anywhere (30-minute read)
Dec 21, 2023
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Submit or Surrender? Why I Can't Listen To My Own Writing Advice
The torture of cold submissions
Dec 6, 2023
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