The Horror You Can’t See
{Just in time for Halloween, this article has been reprinted from The Fictorians, Oct 23, 2015.} As a writer who gravitates to the dark and desolate and desperate, I often inject a syringe full of horror into my stories. “You got your horror in my fantasy!” “Oh, yeah? You got your fantasy in my horror!” This month, I’m going to talk about a technique that the best horror writers and filmmakers use masterfully—leaving things off-screen. So before this wild assertion spurs someone to argue with me, someone whose tastes prefer everything upfront and in one’s face, let me say that