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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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Building a Labyrinth of Liminal Horror
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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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Starve Acre (2019): How to Farm a Field of Horrors
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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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Evolve or Die: Is this the End for Sword and Sorcery?
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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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M.R. James and the Craft of Fear
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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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Old Sorcery, New Edge: Q&A with Molly Tanzer
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The Horror Masterpiece Everyone Missed
How 'The Rolling Giant', an incredible YouTube short by Kane Pixels, builds tension, embraces the uncanny and gives viewers the virtual creeps
Jan 25, 2024
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Alec Worley
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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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How We Built Black Beth
Resurrecting a British sword and sorcery heroine and what it takes to write a character 'well'
Nov 6, 2023
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Alec Worley
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How We Built Black Beth
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My Future Shock Hell! (Chapter 4 of 4)
Why your best shot is all that will ever matter
Oct 13, 2023
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Alec Worley
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