Speculative and Genre Writing

A trove of info about all that is speculative in writing - science fiction, fantasy, horror, gothic literature, and strange ideas whether in the form of novel, poem, essay, and perhaps even reports from places such as WorldCon.

The Shining, Salem's Lot, and The Dead Zone: Early King's Novels to Movies

Modern horror is in many ways "King's Monster." King dug up the pieces of the genre, stitched them together, added lightning, and a gloriously gruesome entity emerged. Given this ...