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Horror/Scary: November 20, 2024 Issue [#12843]




 This week: The Turkey's Dead
  Edited by: W.D.Wilcox Author IconMail Icon
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“So where do the ideas—the salable ideas—come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious.”
—Stephen King

“I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I’ve inspired a few people one way or another.”
—Richard Matheson

“When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.”
—R.L. Stine

“I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.”
—Shirley Jackson

“What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can’t get lost in your own genius, which is a dangerous place for writers. You don’t want to ever get complacent. If a book starts going too well, I usually know there’s a problem. I need to struggle. I need that self-doubt. I need to think it’s not the best thing ever.”
—Harlan Coben


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Letter from the editor

The Turkey's Dead


When I sit down to write it's usually feast or famine. I have to look at the blank page and try to imagine the story is already there and I'm just adding to it. Then when I start, the idea magically reveals itself. Oh*Headbang*, that's what my idea was.

Other ways to get ideas are news, books, and television. Just pick up something and start reading it. You never know what the old ka-noggin will absorb and use at some later date. That staring-at-a-blank page thing really works. There are words on that page. Maybe words that look like a white cat in the middle of a snowstorm, but you just have to relax your eyes long enough and let the magic happen.

You could start with characters in the middle of an action and introduce the central conflict. You could also introduce a mystery or unknown element early on, such as a character with a hidden past, a supernatural occurrence, or a mysterious object. You could also start with an opening line that creates suspense, such as "Looming in the distance was a woman dressed in a red cloak."

Here's a good opener: When we all sat down to eat the Thanksgiving dinner, the turkey was dead.

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody

W.D. Wilcox




Editor's Picks

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A tale of feathery retribution.
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You ever had one of those days?
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