Part 3 of On Writing Horror is titled “Developing Horror Concepts”. It contains four articles dealing with conceiving and developing ideas for horror. A World of Dark and Disturbing Ideas, J. N. Williamson Williamson chooses to speak in terms of “useful premise” as opposed to …

Part 2 of On Writing Horror, titled “An Education in Horror”, briefly addresses a horror writer’s education in four articles. What You Are Meant to Know: Twenty-One Horror Classics, Robert Weinberg Weinberg’s message is pretty clear - know your genre. He suggests that, in …

Today I’m starting my journal entries for On Writing Horror, A Handbook by The Horror Writer’s Association. The book contains about 50 individual articles, divided among 8 different sections, so I’m going to match my entries up to the sections rather than address the articles …