Horror in fiction and film. What frightens a reader and why, the difference between dread and shock, and the craft that makes one land while the other wears off in a page.
HorrorTwo hat-tips decades apart, a mission and a gardener’s plaque, and the question they share. What keeps somebody in a place after they have every reason to leave it. I do not know. Cal Rourke thinks he does.
HorrorI went back to repair an earlier book and found a full novel inside it. The question underneath is what it takes for an ordinary person to become a killer, and the answer is logic applied to a premise that…
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