Writing in the Dark

Tim Waggoner’s guide treats horror as a form with its own creative and practical questions. It ranges from the genre’s significance and the construction of monsters to idea generation, plot development, narrative choices, fear, and suspense. That spread connects the imaginative work of inventing frightening material with the decisions involved in shaping it into stories and novels. The book is presented as a craft resource for horror fiction, drawing on Waggoner’s experience as both a writer and a teacher. The supplied description cuts off while introducing its discussion of avoiding clichés, so the full extent of its topics cannot be determined from this source.