WRITING HORROR - A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association by Castle, Mort (editor) (Harlan Ellison; Joyce Carol Oates; J. N. Williamson; Wayne Allen Sallee; Robert Weinberg; Richard Gilliam; Nancy Holder; Joe R. Lansdale; David Morrell; Tracy Knight; Nancy Kilpatrick; Matthew Costello; Gary Brandner) - 1997

Cincinnati, Ohio: Writer's Digest, 1997. (xii) 224 pp. Glossy pictorial boards; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners; no interior markings. Cover art by Gerald Brom. This essay collection contains: Foreword: The HWA by Stanley Wiater. Deveoloping Horror Concepts: The Madness of Art by Joyce Carol Oates; A World of Dark and Disturbing Ideas by J. N. Williamson; Mirror Mirror by Wayne Allen Sallee; Dark Light Focus - Karl Edward Wagner by Robert Weinberg; Honest Lies and Darker Truths by Richard Gilliam; What You Are Meant to Know by Robert Weinberg. Horror Crafting: Plot Characters Mood and More: Such Horrible People by Tina Jens; Guerrilla Literature by Nancy Holder; The Horror the Horror the Horror by Alan Rodgers; No Shield of Disbelief by Dominick Cancilla; A Hand on the Shoulder by Joe R. Lansdale; Keep It Moving Maniacs by Jay R. Bonansinga; Dark Light Focus - Roger Corman by Elizabeth Engstrom; He Said She Asked by David Morrell; Darkening the Mood by Gregory Nicoll; Dr Frankenstein's Secrets of Style by Norman Partridge. Horror: Genre and Subgenre: More Simply Human by Tracy Knight; Archetypes and Fearful Allure by Nancy Kilpartrick; Dark Light Focus - EC Horror Comics by D. G. Chichester; Breaking All Codes by David Quinn; Writing for the New Pulps by John Maclay; Capturing Kids by Jill M. Morgan; Something to Scare the Kids by Richard Lee Byers; Pushing the Horror Button by Matthew Costello; Splat Goes the Hero by Jack Ketchum. Innovation in Horror: Today and Tomorrow: Innovation in Horror by Jeanne Cavelos; No More Silver Mirrors by Karen E. Taylor; Dark Light Focus - Forrest J. Ackerman by Owl Goingback; Werewolves by Gary Brandner; The Green Mile - a conversation with Stephen King from M.A.I.N. Magazine; Contemporary Lip Synching to Horror's Gothic Tune by Robert W. Walker; On Horror - a conversation with Harlan Ellison. Marketing Horror: Sharing the Creeps by Edo van Belkom; Dark Light Focus - Cemetery Dance by Gary A. Braunbeck; Online Resources for the Horror Writer by Paula Guran; Wither Horror by Benjamin Adams; From the HWA's FAQ Folder on Agents by Lawrence Watt-Evans; Specialists in Fear by James J. Gormley; and Afterword: Quiet Lies the Locust Tells by Harlan Ellison; followed by an index.. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Gerald Brom; Alan Pollack;. 8vo. Book.