Here's some writing advice from horror authors, so you, too, can terrorize everyone you meet. Of course, most general tips for writing apply to writing horror as well. Read widely. Try to write ...

Some words are scarier than others, so Booker began her first scary writing lesson with her students by first reading them "Harry and the Terrible Whatzit" by Dick Gackenback and then asking them ...

"A good scary book thrills in a way no other genre can quite match, it simply demands to be read," says children's horror author Rachel Burge as I interview her, appropriately enough, on Halloween.

Scary stories are supposed to be, you guessed it, scary. Watch what happens to these ducks for example. Hey, not so fast ducks. When you write a scary story you need to frighten the reader.

Writing The Brightest Star was a beautiful experience, I felt sure and assured, I felt I knew my characters and myself, I felt sturdy in my relationship with words and language and expression.