When Victor is revealed as the real monster—not in the form of a negligent parent, son, brother, friend, and husband, but as a literal serial killer—he becomes the one and only antagonist of the book. And that is a loss I can’t excuse.
In the mid aughts, a storytelling form known as the creepy pasta was created. Wikipedia defines this as “a horror-related legend which has been shared around the Internet.” The medium of the internet is often an important part of the story’s believability. For instance, Ted the Caver (a proto-creepy pasta sometimes credited as the first of the genre) captures a...
As the final version of Within the Walls of Memory is being ironed out, it’s time to share the cover design. If you’d like to learn about the creation process and see the ideas I had to scrap along the way, keep reading. For now, here’s the book cover for the first volume of the Slown House Gothic horror series...
Low-stakes horror, anyone?
I’ve written frequently about my preference for low-stakes stories. I’ll go a step further here and admit that, no matter how well-crafted a novel is, I tend to lose interest at the final battle. Wake the Bones, by Elizabeth Kilcoyne, is a good example of...
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