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Guest User 15/02/2021 Guest User 15/02/2021

What Horror Means to Me

I grew up in a Christian family, attended church every Friday for Choir Practice, Sunday for Service, during the week for Rainbows, Brownies, Guides and eventually Pathfinders. My parents were part of the church army and I had tea and cake in the Vicarage. We were that kind of family.

On the flipside of all that, I always had a bit of a thing for the macabre, although I was afraid of the dark and that which might lurk within it I also had a curiosity which just could not be satiated. I was drawn to it in a way that I wanted to keep digging my way deeper.

So, in and around my duties as a good little Christian girl, I also had a ring binder of Serial Killer research.

Guest User 13/02/2021 Guest User 13/02/2021

How Horror Allows Women To Be Both Damsels And Demons

Originally published September 7, 2019 in The Rational.

When you think of female characters in horror films, you might think of a bra-less bimbo being stalked through the woods by a masked serial killer. Or perhaps you’re picturing a perfectly coiffed starlet from the 1940s fainting at the sight of a costumed monster. Either way, in the wake of today’s women’s empowerment movement, the first image conjured up is unlikely to be someone who seems worth idolizing at all.

Guest User 11/02/2021 Guest User 11/02/2021

Women Developing Their Characters: An Argument for Protagonist Diversity Beyond the Audience Surrogate

Almost everyone loves to project themselves into a good fantasy from time to time, whether it be through a video game, book, television show or just in our own minds. Some media, such as video games, make this process very easy by putting the player in the protagonist’s shoes throughout the story. In literature, the easiest way to accomplish this effect is to use what theorists call an audience surrogate. Audience surrogates appear throughout literature, but some popular examples include Dr. Watson from the Sherlock Holmes stories, Nick Carraway from The Great Gatsby, and Bella Swan from Twilight.

Guest User 09/02/2021 Guest User 09/02/2021

Women Writing Horror Rekindled My Love for the Genre

In January of 2019, a friend told me about a Women in Horror book club being hosted by a new local independent bookstore (www.whittybooks.com). Until that moment, I did not realize how much I had been missing reading horror. Somewhere along the way, I had become disenchanted with the genre. I was not entirely sure I wanted to join another book club, as the ones in my past generally involved members who would not even read the book to discuss (insert “I joined book club to drink wine” jokes here, because it is a fairly accurate description of some of the members). But, I decided to give it a chance and I found a community I did not even know I was missing.

Guest User 04/02/2021 Guest User 04/02/2021

Wales: My Country and its Influence on my Writing

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