Nightmares, Killers and Demons
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Nightmares, by A. F. Stewart
The essence of writing good horror is to
weave fear throughout the pages, to instill anxiety and tension in the reader
or viewer; it is literally penning the stuff of nightmares. Horror exists in a fictional
world where monsters do live under
your bed and in your closet.
And I believe that’s the trick to writing
horror. To capture that universal fear we’ve all experienced, that dread and
horror of the nightmare.
Over the years, I’ve had a nightmare or two
(or three or four…) and so I can relate. Waking up suddenly, your heart racing,
fear clawing at your thoughts, well, it’s never an enjoyable thing, but you feel it, that sudden surge of adrenaline
racing through you like an electric shock. I used to have a recurring nightmare
about continually falling into a black void (which may in part explain my fear
of heights) and I remember jolting awake and feeling like every nerve in my
body had been zapped. Now, as a writer, I get to take all those requisite bad
dreams, all the scary monsters, horrors, and witches, and turn them into fodder
for stories. Essentially I’ve become the dream master, putting creepy,
nightmare inducing images into poor, unsuspecting minds.
And with two stories from my new book, Killers and Demons II, I specifically play
amid the idea of nightmares. In both Up
from the Ground, and Shadows, I
explore the notion of having a nightmare step into reality and take over your
life. Up from the Ground delves into
the concept of having a menacing supernatural force invade dreams and slowly
take over people until they have no will of their own, corrupting them from the
inside out. While Shadows on the
other hand deals with silent, accusatory, hallucinatory figures, trying to pull
long buried secrets out of a mind that doesn’t want to let them go. While
coming at the concept from opposites angles, both stories juxtapose reality and
fantasy, blurring the lines to create the ultimate in bad dreams: a nightmare
that turns real.
And perhaps that’s what truly links
fictional horror with our nightmares, the nagging fear the nightmares can come
true…
Thank you Anita! My recurring nightmare as a child involved me as a mouse being chased around the house by a cat. I always woke up just as the cat was about to eat me.
But readers need have no nightmares about failing to find this book, 'cause here are lots of links.
Come one, come all, to a festival of murder
and mayhem.
We have killers, demons, witches and more,
with bloody exploits galore.
Evil is back, with a greater appetite for
death.
Sample what is offered, but be careful.
What you nibble on may turn out to be somebody’s fingers…
Smashwords Link: https://www.smashwords.
Amazon Link: http://www.amazon.com/
Meet the author too, and find her on the internet below:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/afstewartauthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scribe77
Or go to her about me page to find lots more: http://about.me/AFStewart
A. F.
Stewart was born and raised in Nova Scotia, Canada, and still calls it
home. The youngest in a family of seven
children, she has always had an overly creative mind and an active imagination. She is fond of good books
(especially science fiction/fantasy), action movies, sword collecting, and oil
painting as a hobby.
Ms. Stewart
is an indie author with several published novellas and story collections in the
dark fantasy or horror genres, with a few side trips into poetry and
non-fiction. She has a great interest in history and mythology, often working
those themes into her books and stories.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/afstewartauthor
Twitter: https://twitter.com/scribe77
Or go to her about me page to find lots more: http://about.me/AFStewart
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