Horror and dark fiction allow us to be scared without getting hurt. You can explore impossible scenarios and sometimes possible ones that make you think. Kid’s horror is one of the reasons that I started getting into reading as a child because it’s scary but you can close the book and it’s done. It was reassuring, in an odd way.
Author Archives: RachelABrune
Meet the Author: Eliza Master
I’m fascinated by gritty edges and how far people will go.
Meet the Author: T.M. Starnes
You there! What would you do generic customer service rep from behind the McDonald’s counter! How would you save the world?
Meet the Author: Larina Warnock
Ultimately, Red Rover, Red Rover is a story about motivated blindness, what it means to be an accomplice, and how we define justice.
Meet the Author: Solange Hommel
Rejection still stings a little, but seeing it as a form of success instead of failure makes it easier to wade into the next round of submission calls and try again.
Meet the Author: EJ Sidle
My focus here was more on the survivors finding their way in a strange new world, and on how they form relationships with one another. I like this sort of approach as I think sometimes the emptiness and solitude of something – be it an emotion, a decision or the apocalypse – can be more terrifying and unsettling than seeing the monster directly.
Meet the Author: Elizabeth Davis
It’s fun to write a character who helps you embrace yourself – even if you never grow up to be a pansexual magical space cop.
Meet the Author: Pedro Iniguez
Fear and death are universally understood and they’re things everyone has to deal with or think about at some point in their lives. It’s this common understanding that allows you to connect to Horror’s characters no matter how outrageous the premise might be.
Meet the Author: Joseph Rubas
The best advice I’ve ever gotten comes from Stephen King. Read a lot and write a lot.
Meet the Author: Tim Jeffreys
With Tim Jeffreys’ short story, “Last Shot,” we return to the world of celebrities and the bold frame of the camera lens. In Jeffreys’ story, a paparazzo gradually realizes that a common thread runs through a series of celebrity deaths… Read on to learn more! Q (Crone Girls Press): What do you write? How longContinue reading “Meet the Author: Tim Jeffreys”
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