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Foreword : the Horror Writers Association : a shockingly brief and informal history of the HWA | |
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The madness of art | |
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Acceptance speech : the 2003 National Book Award for distinguished contribution to American letters | |
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Why we write horror | |
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What you are meant to know : twenty-one horror classics | |
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Avoiding what's been done to death | |
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Workshops of horror (and seminars and conferences) | |
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Degrees of dread : horror in higher education | |
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A world of dark and disturbing ideas | |
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Mirror, mirror | |
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Going there : strategies for writing the things that scare you | |
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Honest lies and darker truths : history and horror fiction | |
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Such horrible people | |
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A hand on the shoulder | |
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Eerie events and horrible happenings : plotting short horror fiction | |
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Reality and the waking nightmare : setting and character in horror fiction | |
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"He said?" : she asked : some thoughts about dialogue | |
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Keep it moving, maniacs : writing action scenes in horror fiction | |
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The dark enchantment of style | |
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Innovation in horror | |
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Depth of field : horror and literary fiction | |
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Splat goes the hero : visceral horror | |
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Darkness absolute : the standards of excellence in horror fiction | |
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On horror : a conversation with Harlan Ellison | |
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No more silver mirrors : the monster in our times | |
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Fresh blood from old wounds : the alchemist meets the biochemist | |
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More simply human | |
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The possibility of the impossible | |
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Take a scalpel to those tropes | |
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That spectred isle : tradition, sensibility, and delivery or ghosts? : what ghosts? | |
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New horrors : a roundtable discussion of horror today and tomorrow | |
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Archetypes and fearful allure : writing erotic horror | |
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Writing for the new pulps : horror-themed anthologies | |
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Freaks and fiddles, banjos and beasts : writing redneck horror | |
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Youth gone wild | |
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Writing horror comic books - and graphic novels | |
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Acts of madness : writing horror for the stage | |
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Fear spins off : the tie-in novel comes into its own | |
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The play's the thing on the doorstep : writing video and role-playing games | |
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Now fear this : writing horror for audio theater | |
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Good characters and cool kills : writing the horror screenplay | |
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Dark fluidity : online research and marketing resources | |
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The small press : filling shelves with rare books | |
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Sharing the creeps : marketing short horror fiction, version 2.0 | |
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For love or money : six marketing myths | |
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One reader at a time : promoting your horror novel | |
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Afterword : quiet lies the locust tells | |
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The HWA members who contributed to this book | |