We all like to think we're dutiful little ink slingers, writing pitch-perfect prose and never straying into bloodcurdlingly-bad storytelling territory. Sometimes even the best manuscript becomes possessed by bad writing that's in need of a little exorcism. Here are some tips on how to find the sickness within your story or book and purge it. The Stages of the Exorcism Every good exorc[...]
0 My favorite thing about seeing A Quiet Place in the theater was watching--or rather, hearing--the effect it had on the audience. It's rare that a movie truly makes an audience hold its collective breath, but this one does so frequently. It kind of tricks the audience into believing that they are in some way also responsible for the fate of the characters, and any random noise they make cou[...]
Let's Watch a Horror Movie is now the Midnight Society Movie Night! Every month I live-tweet a scary movie to share the fun with anyone who wants to join. This month I'm watching IT. Join us. We all float down here. The evil from the sewers comes for dinner, I mean, IT only eats once every 29 years, so can we blame IT? A super fun movie where we can spend time with Pennywise the Dancin[...]
It's April 2nd, which means that many of you participating in Camp NaNoWriMo have been working on your book or your project for two days already! Or erm, if you're like me, you really haven't started yet because of the weekend and um, yeah, I should probably get on that. First off, CONGRATULATIONS on taking the next step to make your creative project a reality if you are participating an[...]
When I first heard about The Alienist, I wasn't interested in watching it. I thought it would be about aliens and be a science fiction show. I wasn't interested in that, but when iTunes had episode 1 for free, I couldn't help but check it out. That's when, with the opening, I discovered the true meaning of an alienist. Alienist- In the 19th century, the mentally ill were thought to be alie[...]
The Where to Query series is now off to a running start and if I'm lucky, I'll have about as many addendums to this as there are Land Before Time movies. I wanted to do this because sometimes your eyes start to cross when you're researching agents. I know that sometimes I find myself wishing that someone would just make a list for me. So, here you go friends. A magical list put together[...]
I've been traveling pretty frequently for work lately, so I've had some long airplane flights. Most of the airlines now offer some form of free movies on demand during flights, and most of them have a small selection of both new and old horror films. So, I figured when I fly from now on, I'll try to find a horror flick to pass the time, and I'll review it for the site. First up is an ab[...]
It was a dark and stormy night... But then, it was always stormy when she came. Beckoning. Calling to her followers. And follow her they did - never to be seen or heard from again. Larkin, MO, is not the cute, sleepy town it appears to be. Beneath the quaint façade lurks a secret - a secret everyone knows, but no one will talk about. Everyone knows to keep curfew. To stay in on stormy[...]
If we're going to talk about bunnies being scary, I first have to give a shout out to Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If you don't know why... Now this may be a bit of irony, but Donnie Darko takes the whole evil, creepy bunny to an entirely new level. Let me introduce you to Frank the Bunny. [...]
Today, the Midnight Society is four years old. I can hardly believe it. This started as a passion project secret society for people who are enamored with oddities and treasures, screams and scares, and an attraction to wonderfully dark things. Our vision was to create a place for creepy photos, real life ghost stories, cemetery visits, horror books, and anything we found lurking in the da[...]