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	Word Sculpting: The Horror Genre
		Ask an avid horror reader and most will not be fans of romance or erotica, yet so many horror authors use pages of needless sex scenes to fill their novels.
		Many horror novels are written by writers who want to "shock" the reader via gratuitous scenes, many newer authors believe this is how to make their writing more interesting.
		Horror writers should not be deterred by the lack of professional exuberance for the genre.
	www.laurawrites.net /horror.htm (1400 words)

	Horror Writers Association - What is Horror?
		Webster's Collegiate Dictionary gives the primary definition of horror as "a painful and intense fear, dread, or dismay." It stands to reason then that "horror fiction" is fiction that elicits those emotions in the reader.
		Horror is an emotion." He was correct and his words have become a rallying cry for the modern horror writer.
		Horror fiction can be a guide through a nightmare world, entered freely and by the reader's own will.
	www.horror.org /horror-is.htm (1275 words)

	"Is Horror Literature?" by Anitra L. Freeman, 8/6/2001
		Many horror novels, however, are a perceptive treatment of the nature of reality and the human mind, the relationship between natural order and moral order, the shadow side of the human soul, the development of character, and how "good" and "evil" are judged.
		Hyde, and other horror novels that are accepted as classic literature are accepted partly because their theme is the exploration of human faults and evils.
		Horror movies, the witch and vampire novels of Anne Rice, the "Splatterpunk" novels of Poppy Brite, all in their own way explore evil with a morbid fascination.
	anitraweb.org /books/sffh/horror.html (2323 words)

	The Absolutely Weird Bookshelf, 100 Best Horror Novels
		Picking the 100 best horror novels is, in fact, a bit harder that the 100 best science fiction books (there's pretty good consensus on this list) or the 100 best fantasy books (there's a lot of leeway for choice here).
		Horror spans more categories of fiction, involving all the major genres, as well as being a subset of "real" literature.
		Jones and Newman (a major horror writer in his own right) do a pretty good job, quibbleable as is to be expected, but offering a good basic list of horror novels, with the added bonus of brief commentaries on the works by important writers.
	www.strangewords.com /weirdbooks/horror100.html (1854 words)

	Horror fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader.
		Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, or exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called "horror." Horror fiction often overlaps science fiction or fantasy, all three of which categories are sometimes placed under the umbrella classification speculative fiction.
		Modern horror fiction found its roots in the gothic novels that exploded into popularity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, typified by Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) and Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto (1764).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horror_fiction (689 words)

	Horror Writing for Children
		That the horror genre focuses attention on the darker side of life and seeks to make an entertainment of things we would rather not entertain in 'reality' should be a descriptive statement, not an evaluative one.
		The modern trend in horror fiction merely reflects the same needs as are reflected in the inordinate violence and morbidity to be found in folklore, traditional stories, urban legends and 'fairy tales' from as far back in human history as we can see.
		In short, as a horror writer you can't depict genuine horrors so realistically that your young and impressionable audience is traumatised and develops fears that they transport into their everyday life.
	www.roberthood.net /scribbls/children.htm (2567 words)

	FW Horror: Selections from the Vault
		Horror's not dead, it just takes more originality to get a horror novel published these days, because the audience is finally becoming sophisticated enough to demand a higher quality product.
		My own hope for the "horror of the future" is something more along the lines of "a dark sense of wonder": we should be going "gosh-wow" at the same time we get that sinking feeling in the pit of the stomach.
		Horror is now reputable enough to for people to consider writing it over other forms they could write.
	www.oceanstar.com /horror/whither.htm (5206 words)

	Jedi Council Forums - How scary are horror novels really for you?
		The most effective horror that i've read is the stuff produced by the likes of Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne..I think it has something to do with the time period both wrote in.
		Horror novels really don't do it for me. I read the Shining once and while I thought it was a great story I just didn't feel frightened.
		Horror has reached claustrophobic levels especially if you read the novel during the stillness of night, quietly alone, that can generate the proper atmosphere to make the skin crawl or that look over your shoulder affect.
	boards.theforce.net /Message.aspx?topic=20100986 (1550 words)

	Horror Interviews - OWL GOINGBACK - Writer - Horror of Buried.com - Everything That Is Horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His novel CROTA won the 1996 Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and was one of four finalists in the Best Novel category.
		One of the nice things about using Native American legends and themes in my novels is that there is a remarkable amount of information to draw from, much of which has never been used by other writers.
		I doubt that all the horror novels I create in the future will have an Indian theme to them, because I do like to write about different things, but for now there probably will be at least a little bit of the old Indian in the stories that I write.
	www.buried.com /interviews/horror.php?id=11 (1521 words)

	Bob's Reviews: Books: Horror/Thriller Novels: Cujo
		It portrays a very living and breathing place which lends itself perfectly to the horror King is about to pop out of the dark spaces in his mind.
		This contrast only serves to heighten the terror and the bleakness of the soul that is what the novel is all about at its core.
		Even aside from the humans in this novel it has a huge character in the form of tension so strong it could almost be called Fate.
	www.rmtp.ca /reviews/books/cujo.htm (504 words)

	"Will You Step into My Parlor?": A Guide for Horror Lovers - Fiction Department - Enoch Pratt Free Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Although the first horror or gothic novel (characterized by gloomy settings and sinister events) is agreed to be Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto, published in 1765, the writer's fascination with fear and terror can be traced back to the13th century.
		Jones is the editor of numerous anthologies of horror stories that have showcased the talents of established, as well as new, writers.
		This annual short story collection covers horror fiction published in the previous year, and also includes an essay on the current state of horror in print, as well as in television and the movies.
	www.epfl.net /slrc/fiction/horror_howtoguide.html (2166 words)

	Horror Fiction by William Scheinman
		Horror fiction aficionados will find in these pages information about Raptures, my upcoming horror novel, and White Light, my completed novel of dark fantasy.
		You can read excerpts from both novels, as well as a sample story from The Alchemy of Nightmares, my collection of short horror fiction.
		Because horror fiction is often about ideas, I’ve included an Essays page for those interested in my views on the genre.
	www.williamscheinman.com (88 words)

	BookBytes - Horror
		The line between pure horror novels and thrillers can be a fine one, so take a look at the Thrillers page too.
		Nest, now alone in the world, and a student at Northwestern, where she is a world class competitor in track, is approached by a tatterdemalion sent by the Lady, telling her she must go to Seattle to warn John Ross that he cannot leave the service of the Word.
		Ross has experienced too much horror, including one nightmare that he thought he was preventing, that simply happened differently instead, and in determined to do no more service to the Lady.
	marylaine.com /bookbyte/horror.html (1186 words)

	Scary books for Halloween @ Blogcritics.org
		After a veritable glut of horror novels in the 80s, the genre pretty much imploded in the early 90s.
		Since horror movies seem to be bringing in the bucks at the box office these days, we can hope that the public has an increased appetite for horror on the printed page as well.
		Not sure why he felt horror was no longer important and retired, because he was clearly one of the best in the field.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2003/10/31/222318.php (2547 words)

	Bob's Reviews: Books: Horror/Thriller Novels: Prey
		Prey is one of my favourite novels by horror author extraordinaire Graham Masterton who also penned "Pariah", "Death Dream", and the Manitou novels amongst his career of over 70 books to date.
		The tone of the novel is pitch perfect, and the voice is strong.
		All ideas, opinions, and information are from the reviewer and are not representative of any company or group involved with the creators and/or staff of the materials being reviewed.
	www.rmtp.ca /reviews/books/prey.htm (298 words)

	Some Weird & Horror Tales : Arthur's Classic Novels
		In the beautiful and wild country near Sorrento, in the Kingdom of Naples, at the time it was governed by monarchs of the house of Anjou, there lived a territorial noble, whose wealth and power overbalanced that of the neighboring nobles.
		She had been dead for years, yet there were those in the village who, in spite of the clearer light which comes on a vantage-point from a long-past danger, half believed in the tale which they had heard from their childhood.
		The Joyce-Armstrong Fragment was found in the field which is called Lower Haycock, laying one mile to the westward of the village of Withyham, upon the Kent and Sussex Border.
	www.arthurwendover.com /arthurs/horror.html (4254 words)

	House on Haunted Hill-type horror novels? - sffworld.com
		So I was wondering if any of you here could recommend to me any horror novels that are like House on Haunted Hill in the aspect of a sadistic doctor performing horrifying expirements on his patients in an insane asylum.
		Also, since this borders along with this horror element pretty closely, I was wondering if you could also recommend any horror novels that have to do with medieval torture chambers and the Spanish Inquisition and that type of thing.
		recommend to me any horror novels that are like House on Haunted Hill in the aspect of a sadistic doctor performing horrifying expirements on his patients in an insane asylum.
	www.sffworld.com /forums/showthread.php?p=196341 (1048 words)

	Horror Genre - Writers
		Sacrifice is Macey's first published novel, but she has written various other horror novels and stories as well.
		Scott's first novel, An American Haunting, is a classic haunted house story in the vein of Richard Matheson's The Legend of Hell House and Stephen King's The Shining.
		Southern writer of horror and suspense with nine published works on the market he is currently penning his first literary fiction novel.
	horrorgenre.com /Writers (2658 words)

	Authors on the Web - Horror Author Roundtable
		Ever read a horror book and thought, "What kind of mind comes up with that?." Join nine acclaimed horror authors --- Kelley Armstrong, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Doug Clegg, David Searcy, Tananarive Due, Christopher Schlidt, Darren Shan, Whitley Strieber and R.L. Stine as they discuss their influences and their phobias.
		Find out if there's truth behind the assumption that horror writers are just a little bit, well, odd.
		AOTW: Many of the situations and scenarios in horror novels are so, well, horrible, it seems impossible they could all be products of pure imagination.
	www.authorsontheweb.com /features/0110-horror/0110-horror.asp (409 words)

	stoker horror novels - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Horror Tales, English--History And Criticism, Mummies In Literature, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History, Popular Literature--Great Britain--History And Criticism, Sex In Literature, Stoker, Bram--1847-1912--Criticism And Interpretation--History, Vampires In Literature
		...constituted a generic horror tradition long before the novels of gothic romance...primitivism the horror genre had always...that the gothic novels caverns and tombs...late-eighteenth-century horror novel to revive...classic gothic novels marked not the...
		Peter Fairclough New York: Penguin...Dracula (both the novel and the vampire) to "Stokers updating of gothic form (the found manuscript...1996), that which is "engaging" in the "horror stories of the fin de siecle" is precisely...
	www.questia.com /search/stoker-horror-novels (1334 words)

	Rick R. Reed Horror Novels - Lulu.com
		My horror fiction embraces the demimonde of urban Chicago, where serial killers, pedophiles, and those who've bargained with the devil seek life's simple pleasures, including torture, pain, humiliation, sexual degradation, addiction and murder.
		My horror short story collection, Twisted: Tales of Obsession and Terror was just published in April 2006.
		Rick R. Reed, author of the critically acclaimed novels Obsessed and Penance, delivers a stunning retake on the timeless themes of guilt, decadence, and despair in Oscar Wilde's fin de siecle classic.
	www.lulu.com /horrorauthor (539 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Shadow of the Succubus / The Eternal Thirst: Two Novels of Horror: Books: John Condenzio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		His book The Shadow of the Succubus/The Eternal Thirst: Two Novels of Horror is a masterpiece of modern horror.
		A must read, I think, for anyone who loves good horror, or gothic in the way that is used to be done.
		In this first novel, "the Shadow of the Succubus", a writer checks into a Vermont Inn to recover his muse.
	www.amazon.ca /Shadow-Succubus-Eternal-Thirst-Horror/dp/141403914X (367 words)

	The CHUD.COM Message Boards - Out of print horror novels
		Some of the best horror books I've read in the past few years have been novels that are long out of print and not readily available.
		There was a huge boom in horror books sometime around the early 80ies, when Stephen King paved the way for horror literate with CARRIE.
		And for a novel about a body-infesting worm "thing" that makes you cannibalistic, there was this running through theme about sex and relationships that got a bit too much (maybe he was trying too hard to go for a Shivers route?).
	www.chud.com /forums/printthread.php?t=68431 (985 words)

	The LinxNet Library - Online Readable Novels
		Children of the Sunrise Adventure Novel by Christopher K. Travis, 1995.
		Carmilla Vampire Horror Novel by J. Sheridan LeFanu.
		The Sharing Gothic Novel of Horror and Magick, by P.W.Peeples.
	www.linxnet.com /lib/libnovels.html (582 words)

	Unified SciFi Forums \| Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, RPG: Favorite Horror Novels
		The Shining and The Stand (which may not be horror stictly speaking) are fantastic novels by King.
		The Shining was one of the first "horror" novels I read and I certainly enjoyed it.
		I loved Anne Rices early horror novels - the first three or four vampire books, and the Witching Hour were all great.
	forums.shadowdark.org /comments.php?id=625 (1626 words)

	Good horror novels \| Ask MetaFilter
		I wasn't expecting horror stories when I got it, but it had some of the creepiest tales I've read in a while.
		I wasn't aware that it was a horror/thriller novel when I started reading, so fans of the genre probably won't be taken as unaware as I was by the twists and turns.
		It's not traditional horror, but Octavia Butler's new book Fledgling is a vampire story from the vampire's point of view.
	ask.metafilter.com /mefi/26375 (895 words)

	+Horror novels and horror movies
		This page is for those who love (or fear) horror novels and movies.
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		koontz, master of horror novels, pet sematary, the shining, needful things, the man from maine, horror author stephen king, fright, tales of flness, tales of doom
	www.mindconnection.com /books/horror.htm (179 words)

	MZ's Horror For All Web Ring
		He writes westerns, horror novels, post-apocalypitc sci fi, thrillers...
		One of the founders of the modern horror novel Shirley Jackson has had her stories and novels translated into numerous languages.
		This is the official site of horror author: Darrin Brent Patterson complete with sample chapters, info on purchasing his books from online stores or 5000 traditional bookstores and upcoming novels.
	v.webring.com /hub?ring=mzshorrorforallw (913 words)

	Page Horrific \| Hellbound Books - Horror Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So often, I've claimed in interviews that I began to write (science fiction, horror, poetry, letters to the editor, all at about the age of twelve, even before typewriters had been invented) as a way to "exorcize a grim and brutal childhood." Maybe so, but maybe not.
		TMW: Novellas are quicker and shorter than novels, but not so much quicker and shorter that I don't get to pack them with interesting, even bizarre characters who find themselves in interesting, even bizarre situations.
		My advice to people whose novels are bought by Hollywood types: take the money, stay put, hope for the best, and expect the worst.
	www.hellboundbooks.com /10questionsTMW.htm (924 words)

	Horror of Buried.com - Online Horror Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		We are working with several publishers to bring you horror novels from our site.
		If you have a work of horror fiction that has been previously published in print format that you would like posted, please drop us an email at cryptkeeper@buried.com.
		If you are an amateur writer, please check out our user added Horror Fiction Vault where you can register and add your own original work of fiction to our site.
	www.buried.com /features/novels.shtml (259 words)

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