If you're writing a longer story, it's important to have multiple drafts and to try out different ways of building suspense. A lot of authors try to introduce the “scary thing” whether it be a ...

Scary stories are supposed to be, you guessed it, scary. Watch what happens to these ducks for example. Hey, not so fast ducks. When you write a scary story you need to frighten the reader.

I am interested in telling stories that help prepare living characters for tearing those monsters down. I don’t write horror. But I do write stories about terrified sheltered kids and fatherless ...

or even smaller moments that you can include in what horror stories you are already writing or what you will create in your upcoming projects. But beware! If you scare easily — and have active ...

The most effective horror writing shares something of its enigmatic compression. Indeed, as a genre, horror has always been best represented by short stories and novellas. The Stand, which ...

It's been a while since there's been any update on director André Øvredal's Scary Stories to Tell in the ... which has put just about all writing duties in Hollywood to a halt since it began ...

Scary stories are supposed to be, you guessed it, scary. Watch what happens to these ducks for example. Hey, not so fast ducks. When you write a scary story you need to frighten the reader.