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2 unusual facts about horror fiction


Basil Copper

In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper was perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes by August Derleth.

Low fantasy

Fantasy writer David Chandler considered this "rise of 'Low Fantasy'" to reflect the contemporary reality of the War on Terror—characterized by "secret deals", "vicious reprisals" and "sudden acts of terrifying carnage"—much as the horror genre reacted to the Vietnam War a generation earlier.


Amazing Comics

Amazing Comics quickly focused on "SF & Horror" manga series, and famous were published including Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (manga) (launch title), Mamoru Oshii's Kerberos Panzer Cop (first publication), Ultraman or Godzilla (海辺のゴジラ).

Armando Nannuzzi

Nannuzzi briefly worked in the United States in the mid-1980s, and during this period he collaborated with horror novelist Stephen King on King's directorial debut, Maximum Overdrive.

Daniel Keyes

Circa 1952, Keyes was one of several staff writers, officially titled editors, who wrote for such horror and science fiction comics as Journey into Unknown Worlds, for which Keyes wrote two stories with artist Basil Wolverton.

DARLAH

DARLAH (English title: 172 Hours on the Moon) is a 2008 sci-fi/horror novel by Norwegian author Johan Harstad.

Don't Look Under the Bed

It is also the Disney Channel's second and final attempt at a horror film (the first being Tower of Terror) released by Disney (who also created similar themed films such as Something Wicked This Way Comes and The Watcher in the Woods).

Fang Bang

Each song on the album is known to have been inspired by a specific piece of horror fiction, such as An American Werewolf in London, Halloween and Friday the 13th.

Howie Made Me Do It

Featured guests on the compilation include Necro (who performs on three songs), Cyn Roc (who also performs on three songs), E-Dot (who performs on only one song), Steven King (who performs on three songs, also not to be confused with the horror author Stephen King) and Q-Unique (who performs on two songs).

Impossible Monsters

Impossible Monsters is a horror anthology featuring the editing debut by actress and musician Kasey Lansdale.

Jessica Sharzer

In 2011, she became an episode writer and supervising producer for the serial horror-drama television series American Horror Story, created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.

Jirel of Joiry

Jirel of Joiry is a fictional character created by American writer C. L. Moore, who appeared in a series of sword and sorcery stories published first in the pulp horror/fantasy magazine Weird Tales.

Karl Hans Strobl

Strobl became a prolific writer of fiction, especially "schauerromanen"—horror stories influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Hanns Heinz Ewers.

Liwayway

It also carried work in different categories like Short Story (Maikling Kuwento), Children's Story (Kuwentong Pambata), Horror Story (Kuwentong Kababalaghan), and Feature Stories (Lathalain).

Mai Takahashi

Since her debut Takahashi has worked with many prominent directors; playing Kawahime, the River Princess, in Takashi Miike's horror-fantasy children's film Yokai Daisenso (released in the U.S. in 2006 as The Great Yokai War.) She also appeared in Sion Sono's 2005 film Kimyo na Sakasu (Strange Circus), Yoshihiro Nakamura's Busu (The Booth, 2005), and in Hitoshi Yazaki's 2006 film Strawberry Shortcakes.

Michael McGruther

In 2001, Extra Life, a drama about coming-of-age in the digital world; in 2004, Arthur C. Clarke's prophetic novel Prelude to Space; and in 2005, Blood Son, based on the 1951 short story by legendary science fiction and horror writer Richard Matheson.

Mysterious Galaxy

It was founded in 1993 and caters mostly to fans of genre fiction such as mystery, fantasy, science fiction, and horror.

Natsuo Kirino

In addition to comparisons with hardboiled crime fiction, Kirino's work has been compared with horror fiction (the gruesome dismemberment scenes in Out, for example) and proletarian literature such as Kanikōsen.

Nina Auerbach

She has published, lectured, and reviewed widely in the fields of Victorian literature, theater, cultural history, and horror fiction and film.

Prosper Mérimée

La Vénus d'Ille (1837) - a fantastic horror tale of a bronze statue that seemingly comes to life.

Shadow of the Raven

This time the composers Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski honor Edgar Allan Poe, the author of "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and other tales of suspense and horror, as well as the famous poem "The Raven".

Shadowed Realms

Shadowed Realms published many prominent Australian horror writers such as Stephen Dedman, Lee Battersby, Martin Livings, and Paul Haines, and a number of US and UK horror authors including Kurt Newton, Greg Beatty, Alistair Rennie and Eric Marin.

Sheldon Allman

In addition, Allman co-wrote two comedy horror-themed stage musicals with Bobby Pickett, composer of the hit novelty song, "Monster Mash." The musicals were I'm Sorry the Bridge Is Out, You'll Have to Spend the Night and its sequel, Frankenstein Unbound (Another Monster Musical), the former of which was made into the 1995 film, Monster Mash.

Tamara Thorne

Tamara Thorne (born August 1957), who also writes under the nom de plume "Chris Curry", is an American horror writer born in Los Angeles, California.

Terry Bisson

In the 1960s, early in his career, Bisson collaborated on several comic book stories with Clark Dimond, and he edited Major Publications' black-and-white horror-comics magazine Web of Horror, leaving before the fourth issue.

The Mist

The Mist is a horror novella by the American author Stephen King, in which the small town of Bridgton, Maine is suddenly enveloped in an unnatural mist that conceals otherworldly monsters.

The Three Impostors

The Three Impostors is an episodic novel by British horror fiction writer Arthur Machen, first published in 1895 in The Bodley Head's Keynote Series.

Till A’the Seas

Till A’the Seas is a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow, written in January, 1935 and published in Summer 1935 in "The Californian".

YellowBrickRoad

Murphy asserts that both film belong to a tradition of "Rural Gothic" horror fiction that can be traced back to Young Goodman Brown (1835) by Nathaniel Hawthorne.


see also

André Vianco

André Vianco (São Paulo) is a Brazilian writer of popular horror fiction.

Australian Horror Writers Association

Other projects established by the AHWA include the Southern Horror Yahoo! Group mailing list for members, an annual flash fiction and short story competition (winning entries are published in Midnight Echo magazine), online chatrooms and forums, a Market Hive (markets database for current horror fiction markets), an annual mentorship programme, and ongoing story critiquing groups.

Bridgeton High School

Julie Ann Dawson (born 1971), horror fiction writer, RPG designer and publisher.

Dead Time

Deadtime Stories, a series of children's horror fiction novels by Annette Cascone and Gina Cascone writing under the name A G Cascone

Marc Levinthal

Levinthal's SF/horror fiction has appeared in various anthologies and magazines including Mondo Zombie, Eros Ex Machina and Aboriginal Science Fiction, and (with John Skipp) Dark Destiny II and III, and In the Shadow of the Gargoyle.

October Dreams

October Dreams (AKA October Dreams: A Celebration of Halloween) edited by Richard Chizmar and Robert Morrish is an anthology of Halloween-themed memories and short stories from many award winning names in dark fantasy and horror fiction.

Reanimator

Herbert West–Reanimator, a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written 1921-1922

Steven Paulsen

1995 William Atheling Jr. Award for "The Hunt for Australian Horror Fiction" with Bill Congreve, Sean McMullen, The Scream Factory No. 16.

YellowBrickRoad

She points that American narratives of horror fiction and Gothic fiction often take place in the forests, the same forests confronted by the settlers and explorers of the Colonial history of the United States.