Description
Table of Contents:
-Introduction by Richard Chizmar
-Confessions of a Professional Day Dreamer by Jonathan Maberry
-What is Writing and Why Write Horror by John Skipp
-Tribal Layers by Gene O’Neill
-Bake That Cake: One Writer’s Method by Joe R. Lansdale and Kasey Lansdale
-Ah-Ha: Beginning to End with Chuck Palahniuk and Michael Bailey (Discussing the Spark of Creativity)
-They Grow in the Shadows: Exploring the Roots of a Horror Story by Todd Keisling
-Sell Your Script, Keep Your Soul and Beware of Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing by Paul Moore
-The Cult of Constraint (or To Outline or Not) by Yvonne Navarro
-Zombies, Ghosts and Vampires─Oh My! by Kelli Owen
-The Many Faces of Horror: Craft Techniques by Richard Thomas
-Giving Meaning to the Macabre by Rachel Autumn Deering
-The Horror Writer’s Ultimate Toolbox by Tim Waggoner
-Sarah Pinborough Interview by Marie O’Regan
-Conveying Character by F. Paul Wilson
-Sympathetic Characters Taste Better: Creating Empathy in Horror Fiction by Brian Kirk
-Virtue & Villainy: The Importance of Character by Kealan Patrick Burke
-How to write Descriptions in a story by Mercedes Yardley
-“Don’t Look Now, There’s a Head in That Box!” She Ejaculated Loudly (or Creating Effective Dialogue in Horror Fiction) by Elizabeth Massie
-Point of View by Lisa Mannetti
-What Came First the Monster or the Plot? In Conversation with Stephen Graham Jones by Vince A. Liaguno
-Building Suspense by David Wellington
-Conveying Horror by Ramsey Campbell
-Unveiling Theme Through Plot: An Analysis of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” by Stephanie M. Wytovich
-Interview with Clive Barker by Tim Chizmar
-World Building (Building a terrifying world) by Kevin J. Anderson
-Speak Up: The Writer’s Voice by Robert Ford
-Writing for a Better World by Christopher Golden
-Shaping the Ideas: Getting Things from Your Head to the Paper or on Screen. Interview with Steve Niles, Mick Garris, Heather Graham, Mark Savage, and Maria Alexander by Del Howison
-On Research by Bev Vincent
-Editing Through Fear: Cutting and Stitching Stories by Jessica Marie Baumgartner
-Leaping into the Abyss by Greg Chapman
-Edit Your Anthology in Your Basement for Fun and Profit! . . . or Not by Tom Monteleone
-When It’s Their World: Writing for the Themed Anthology by Lisa Morton
-Roundtable Interview by John Palisano
-The Tale of the Perfect Submissions by Jess Landry
-Turning the Next Page: Getting Started with the Business of Writing by James Chambers
