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Meet Laurie Notch
Laurie E. Notch is an international educator and author who has published nonfiction, fiction, and cyber graphic novels. She has lectured at Tufts University among other colleges in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia. She is Managing Editor of the print and online Adventures for the Average Woman Magazine, intended to promote women in the literary and visual arts. She is president of Wasted Minds Entertainment, a media production company that has produced television pilots including Strange Attractors (a reality TV program that investigates the odd and extraordinary), Ghost Quest (with an all female ghost hunting team), and Supernatural Hotspots (another paranormal show). Laurie holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from St. Cloud State University, Minnesota and an M.A. in Applied Anthropology. She began writing creatively in the late 1970s when she dabbled in horror and science fiction, but decided to make it her main vocation in the late 1990s while working as a technical writer in Washington D.C. Laurie’s short story Sex With a Vampire Doesn’t Have to Bite won honorable mention in a horror story contest with Circlet Press. Laurie says she gets her inspiration from Rod Serling, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Dean Koontz, Clive Barker, and Stephen King. |
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Books on Horror Writing
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I've said before how confusingly few great covers there are for genre books...but I've been looking around anthologies from older horror editors like Aickman, Danby, Lamb, Haining and Sutton for good art and there is some.... 
(read story at Eaten by Ducks)
The trick of The Innkeepers is the trick of many of the classics of horror: for most of the movie, nothing at all happens. The movie spends a lot of time just living with Claire and Luke. Claire obviously looks up to Luke, who is painfully obviously into Claire despite her ignorance. (read story at The No-Name Movie Blog )
The Bram Stoker International Film Festival has begun its annual search for fresh cinematic blood to fill the screens in England October 25-28. Set high upon the cliffs of the iconically gothic town of Whitby, the festival draws hundreds of vampire fans and filmmakers from around the world... (read story at Examiner)
Daniel recently sat down with Nylon mag about really defining the genre of the movie. "Its a character-driven horror film, thats how I would describe it (although I am continually reminded to describe it as a supernatural thriller)…" (read story at Just Jared Jr.)
Spanish thriller "Dictado," depicting a man spooked by a little girl who revives a dark secret from his childhood, had viewers also on edge at its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival. When Daniel's childhood friend commits suicide, he takes the man's seven-year-old daughter into his care. But some of the girl's simplest actions... (read story at Yahoo News)
Despite the grimness, "I don't see Carol as sad," says actress Melissa McBride, who plays the downbeat survivor of a zombie apocalypse in the horror series (returning ... "I don't know where the writers will take her, but ... (read story at Naples Daily News)
Based on a comic book of the same eerie name, "The Walking Dead" continues to follow a small group of survivors in a world overrun with zombies. The thrills-and-chills horror show was an immediate sensation when it premiered, appropriately enough, on Halloween night in 2010. (read story at Cleveland Plain Dealer)
The trappings may look familiar, but "The Innkeepers" is a new twist on the good, old-fashioned ghost story: It's the bored-slacker horror movie. (read story at Indiana Gazette)
(read story at The Daily Texan)
(read story at New Zealand Herald)
As opposed to modern horror flicks like the Saw movies, where gruesome violence can almost blunt fears, The Woman in Black is a tasteful, old-school frightener, emphasizing suspense and foreboding over blood and guts. (read story at Delaware Online)
The writers of this show have created the perfect mix of personalities ... "Electricity must be out," Matt says, casually, like this isn't the beginning of every horror movie ever. Did they miss the part where there is a ... (read story at Zap2it.com)
The brainchild of producer Brad Miska, horror anthology film V/H/S features five shorts (and one wrap-around story) from a variety of genre directors, writers, and actors handily proves that the found footage genre is far from dead and theres plenty of new material to bleed. (read story at Film School Rejects)
(read story at HorrorMovies.ca)
(read story at Time Out London)
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