What’s the Future of Horror? The usual definition of Horror is a non-hero protagonist at the mercy of an unreasonable, unstoppable antagonist. The villain’s aim is to annihilate the protagonist. There’s traditionally a lot of jump-startles, gore, and chase...
Where do we women go inside our heads? What is that intimate inner space made of? Bright rooms with doors opening onto wide open vistas and alpine meadows? Labyrinths of bone, mazes intertwining, tripping, misleading? Caves filled with ideas, dancing points of...
The Importance of Horror by Joy Yehle When I was a little kid, my Grandma used to call me “Spooky” because I loved to hear the same ghost stories over and over. Not much has changed, I still love spooky tales. It’s fun to be scared, to feel the tingle that only an...
There are many complex relationships in my debut novel, Crone. I agonised over the relationship between Heather, my protagonist, and University researcher Trent, because I didn’t want her to be so wrapped up in him that she couldn’t then focus on defeating the evil at...
“There is no way that we’re going on a plane to meet some woman who could be a crazy, sick lunatic! Didn’t you see Fatal Attraction? Well I saw it and it scared the shit out of me! It scared the shit out of every man in America!” – Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks)...
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