If you are ever wondering where your horror obsession comes from, then Grady Hendrix is here to the rescue. Let’s open the cellar door and take a deep dive into the many questions you had about horror novels but were afraid to ask. Discover how Grady decided what books belonged in Paperbacks from Hell and learn more about the history of the horror genre.
Reading a novel is kind of a strange experience: there are voices in your head telling you a story, often pretending you’re there in the room with them—or, even stranger, pretending that you are inside their minds. Books in the form of a diary are much less strange to contemplate: it’s perfectly reasonable to imagine you’ve picked […]
O contemporary YA, how I love thee! I love your angst, your romance, your banter, your thrill, your kissing, your exploration, your humor, and your doing all of it within settings we all know and live every day. Whether it’s a common story with a new voice or a wild new premise the likes of […]
Among Kurt Vonnegut’s oft-quoted tips for creative writing is this gem: “Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.” Sometimes the vicious, persnickety folks we know as authors take that advice and turn it up […]
Short stories have always occupied a singular status in the literary world, and are often considered at a remove from novels in terms of conception, structure, and execution. But in sci-fi and fantasy, short stories are also often literary icebergs—tales with so many ideas hiding unseen below the surface that their authors later adapted the […]