Archive for the 'Fiction' Category
Analysis of Das Unheimliche in fiction and other written narratives.
Faculty Wanted to Teach Writing Popular Fiction
Thursday, November 13th, 2008*** A Public Service Announcement! ***
FACULTY WANTED TO TEACH WRITING OF POPULAR FICTION
Assistant Professor of English
Location: Greensburg, PA
Category: Faculty - Liberal Arts - English and Literature
Posted: 11/10/2008
Application Due: Open Until Filled
Type: Full Time
Seton Hill University seeks published novelist of popular fiction (preferably mystery/suspense), to teach and to mentor novel-length theses in the graduate low-residency [...]
The Uncanny Hands of Horror Fiction
Saturday, September 6th, 2008
I’ve just posted an annotated list of “Classic Dismembered Hand Stories” on my creative writing weblog, The Goreletter. (This “hands” list was originally scheduled to appear in The Book of Lists: Horror, but was cut for space — but I do have another article in that book on “Top Horror Colleges”!).
Stories about dismembered hands that [...]
Giving Pinocchio Flesh
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008On Sarah Langan’s “Why I Write Horror” (The Humanities Review, Spring 2008)
All genres have their intended effects. In mysteries, readers are asked to analyze. They solve puzzles. In science fiction, they imagine new, and occasionally better, worlds. But in horror, readers are asked to feel. That is why, when they put the book on the [...]
