Horror stories
When I was young I fell in love with reading horror. Not the blood and guts kind, but instead the psychological kind. The stories of Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne and H.P. Lovecraft amazed and beguiled me. If you haven't tasted any of their writing you should try it.
I want to mention that I do not think of horror writing as "junk" fiction. Some might. And while there is some junk found in the horror market, there is junk writing in any genre. It should be pointed out that many classic writers have horror stories to their names. In addition to the writers mentioned above, Dorothy Sayers, Hemingway, Faulkner, Henry James, Guy De Maupassant, Kipling, E. M. Forster and Kipling all have horror stories credited to them.
So why horror? Like any fiction, horror is written to evoke certain emotions: to make the reader think and feel. When reading horror the reader may have any range of emotions from an unsettling disquiet, to all out shock. But horror also: shows human beings facing fears and challenges; creates imaginative worlds where readers can escape their lives for a little while; enables readers to share in the joy and sorrows of others; encourages us to laugh and think deeply about ourselves and our sense of who we are; can can just be downright fun to read.
Below you will find a link to of a few of my own horror stories. If you like one of them there will be a link where you can access the rest of the story.
Click here to access a few of my Horror Stories for young readers.
I want to mention that I do not think of horror writing as "junk" fiction. Some might. And while there is some junk found in the horror market, there is junk writing in any genre. It should be pointed out that many classic writers have horror stories to their names. In addition to the writers mentioned above, Dorothy Sayers, Hemingway, Faulkner, Henry James, Guy De Maupassant, Kipling, E. M. Forster and Kipling all have horror stories credited to them.
So why horror? Like any fiction, horror is written to evoke certain emotions: to make the reader think and feel. When reading horror the reader may have any range of emotions from an unsettling disquiet, to all out shock. But horror also: shows human beings facing fears and challenges; creates imaginative worlds where readers can escape their lives for a little while; enables readers to share in the joy and sorrows of others; encourages us to laugh and think deeply about ourselves and our sense of who we are; can can just be downright fun to read.
Below you will find a link to of a few of my own horror stories. If you like one of them there will be a link where you can access the rest of the story.
Click here to access a few of my Horror Stories for young readers.
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