茄子视频 U. Horror Professor鈥檚 Work Published in Writer鈥檚 Workshop of Horror
Michael Arnzen, Ph.D., professor of English and division chair of the Humanities, has published an instructional essay for creative writers in Writer鈥檚 Workshop of Horror. His essay, 鈥淪tripping Away the Mask: Scene and Structure in Horror Fiction鈥� explores how authors can successfully generate suspense and terror in their stories by purposefully manipulating what readers see and don鈥檛 see.
鈥淩eaders peek between their fingers,鈥� Arnzen writes, while 鈥渉orror writers refuse to look away鈥orror is a game of peek-a-boo.鈥�
Arnzen, who last year won his fourth Bram Stoker Award for his collection of short stories, 鈥漃roverbs for Monsters,鈥� teaches English to undergraduate students and writing to 茄子视频鈥檚 graduate students pursuing Master of Fine Art degrees in Writing Popular Fiction.
Writer鈥檚 Workshop of Horror, edited by Michael Knost for Woodland Press, has received rave acclaim and immediately went into second printing upon publication. The book is available at http://writersworkshopofhorror.com/arnzen/. Some of the contributors to Writer鈥檚 Workshop of Horror include Clive Barker, Joe Lansdale, Tom Piccirilli, Elizabeth Massie, and 茄子视频 Writing Popular Fiction instructors Gary Braunbeck and Tim Waggoner. The publisher, Woodland Press, operates out of Chapmanville, W.Va.., as an independent press, committed to the authors in the Appalachian Mountain range.