Horror Bites Welcome to Horror Scribes Horror Scribes is an ode to old-school horror. I say this fully aware that old-school horror is an apathetic term vomited around a lot these days, whether it’s on the back cover of an Adam Nevill release or on the blurb of every new Conjuring movie. It’s the lazy reviewer’s shortcut. It says there are a few scenes that will make you jump. Old-school horror is, to me, so much more than just a tag. It is the reason horror worked in the early days it became mainstream: it is fear, naked and exposed. While new wave horror deals with its causes, old-school horror bares its effects. Helpless, defenceless, impotent…. this is how we feel when we bear the brunt of it. This is how we feel walking the corridors of Hill House, or when quiet Simon rushes down to tell the others about the parachutist. It is the simplicity of fear that is old-school. New age writers and directors often gloss over this. An intricately layered backstory of biblical demons doesn’t trump a helpless mother’s fear for her ravaged young daughter. And it is this fear, at its most basic, that we celebrate at Horror Scribes. Flash stories are the perfect medium for this. It’s what budding writers should first master: fear at a molecular level, before it’s dressed up with narration. The key is to always remember what lies underneath the layers when they eventually unravel. We’ve been at it for 2 years now. We’ve read and published A Horror Scribes Magazine Issue 1 hundreds of stories celebrating this fear. We’ve grown as a community, from two founding members to hundreds of followers. This newsletter is a celebration of our community. It is a forum where we will talk about horror, what we like and hate in the the genre regardless of medium, what has caught our eye recently and what our upcoming projects are. We will also use it to showcase exclusive content which is not on our blog, and introduce you to some of our contributors as well as emerging authors who have impressed us. We hope you enjoy this first issue of Horror Bites. And of course, do keep terrifying us! Ash and Miriam The Horror Scribes Team Twitter: @horror_scribes www.horrorscribes.com Instagram: @horrorscribing
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