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10 Novels That Are Scarier Than Most Horror Movies

ARTICLE BYAMANDA YESILBAS AND CHARLIE JANE ANDERS VIA IO9.COM

You can’t do jump-scares in a book. There’s no computerized special effects, or actors covered with gruesome makeup and KY jelly. You can always put a book down for a few days. And yet, the creepy prose of horror’s greatest writers has the power to hold you trapped in a spell of terror that no film crew can match.

Here are 10 horror novels that are scarier than almost any movie you could be watching. Better read these with all the li...

31 Haunting Images of Abandoned Places

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They say that the only permanent thing in the world is change. History books are one way to understand the passage of time, but there are also some real-life monuments that speak of the past in their own ways. While some of these monuments are well taken care of and protected, those that are partially or even completely run-down often are the most interesting.

Here’s a selection of some of the most ghostly abandoned places around the world, every single one of which has...

‘Misery’ Nurse Set for Early Release

ARTICLE BY LISA BARRON VIA NEWSMAX.COM

The pediatric nurse who inspired Stephen King’s novel “Misery” by killing dozens of young children is to be released after serving only 35 years because of a Texas state law granting mandatory release to inmates with good behavior.

Genene Jones was sentenced to 99 years in jail in May 1984 for murdering 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan in a pediatric clinic in Kerrville near San Antonio.

She was also convicted of injuring another child in a separate attack wh...

December: How To Stay Focused Amid Holiday Insanity

You know what? I love the month of December. Next to Halloween, Christmas is my favorite time of the year. But you know what else? Unlike the month of October, December can cripple my motivation and destroy my willpower. Writing is hard. Writing in December? Oh god.

It goes a little something like this: you sit down at your computer with all good intentions. You’re going to hit your word count, and then you’re going to figure out how to solve world hunger while going on a sugar cookie binge. B...

Neil Gaiman on Writing: One Word at a Time

Literary Figures With Crippling Drug Addictions

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ARTICLE BY ANDREW HANDLEY VIA LISTVERSE.COM

We’ve covered in the past some of the greatest authors whodabbled in the saucea bit more than may have been healthy, but it turns out this is something of a trend.

10 Stephen King

Stephen King is one of the powerhouses of horror fiction. From the time he began writing novels in 1967 through the present day, he’s churned out over 50 novels (that averages to over one per year for 46 straight years). If you want to call that a...

A Conversation With Stephen King @ UMass/Lowell (1:38:42)

41 Flavors of Body Language for Writers

ARTICLE BY SUSAN J. MORRIS VIA OMNIVORACIOUS.COM

Body language can transform a fight scene from mere hack-and-slash into a riveting clash of bodies and souls. It can make an otherwise yawn-inducing argument so intense you forget to breathe. And it can take the wooden performance of a cardboard character and bring it to vibrant, messy, gloriouslife.

I mean, don’t get me wrong: I’m a big fan of dialogue, and there’s a ton you can do with it alone. You can express every emotion in the world, and a...

The Only Kind of Sentence You Should Use in Your Fiction

ARTICLE BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS VIA IO9.COM

People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence that actually works:a sentence that carries the reader forward from the previous sentence.This is harder than it sounds.

I don’t care what kind of fiction you’re writing. Introspective or action-packed, sprawling or tightly focused, character-driven or idea...

Craig Ferguson Interviews Stephen King