The Secrets of Ending a Story Well
What’s the secret to coming in for a good landing on a short story — or a novel? Writer Cat Rambo shares a few secrets to coming up with an ending that satisfies your readers. Endings are hard. You have to go back and look for all the loose ends. It’s like weaving a basket…
Monsters: Why Real Beats FX Every Time
Award-winning horror and science fiction author Alan Dean Foster has a new e-book out today called Predators I Have Known. To celebrate its release, he offers four reasons why real-life predators are always scarier than CGI stuff. 1) The less seen, the better: While H.P. Lovecraft was perfectly capable of describing his nameless creatures from…
Jonathan Lethem psychoanalyzes They Live’s Ghouls
Just who are these weird people that you see when you put on the mysterious sunglasses in They Live? What do they want? More importantly, what do they mean? Novelist Jonathan Lethem investigates, in three excerpts from his new book analyzing They Live. Top image: They Live poster by Mark Palm. Lethem’s They Live book…
