The Temple of Dagon

if m. night shymalan and rod serling had a love child, it would produce plot twists of this caliber

Lets just hope such a creature is never realeased to this unsuspecting world

E.A. Lovecraft wrote:

JJ Burke wrote:like that writer who felt like he was at home, only to discover that he never learned to read, and he's homeless

And also, he's Batman.

He can't be Batman. Batman is his father!

Bat Mans a shity father

And a shitty hero.

He doesn't even have a superpower, plus he keeps a small boy in a cave

Hahaha!

It all varies on the territory because when you write either fiction or nonfiction, you have to be able to drive it to the point you can keep the reader reading. Do this for practice, first do a nonfiction story that can provide the back story for your fiction one.

If that is scary enough as a nonfiction work, then when you get that done start doing its fictional counterpart. I use a lot of real haunted places in my fiction so that adds to the dimension of the story itself when they ask if the place is real.

I am going to be in the area for a few days so if you want help with the story, let me have a stab at it. Because I think if you had the right person come in with it -- it will create a scare. I was working on Pattern of Diagnosis for five days and Passenger for a few months. It sometimes comes fast sometimes it doesn't, when you come up with something and you know you're getting into the characters too you're onto something.

Eternities End wrote:plus he keeps a small boy in a cave

wait, is this a pro or a con?

Depends on whether you're Batman or not.

I'd say its a bad thing to do

The Lurking Fear, work on the build up when doing a Mythos story -- when you get that aspect the rest of the story writes itself. Build the atmosphere and develop the characters, then go from there.

If you get stuck -- try your hand at a true story that can scare the living shit out of you, see my thread about looking for Nonfiction, look at the writes who followed H.P. Lovecraft. Namely Rod Serling since he was also a nonfiction writer, and his nonfiction played of some radicial ideas then shocked the audience while doing it. His scariest came out of writing about being in World War 2 I think, and Richard Matheson did one called The Beardless Warriors.

Both of them were World War Two veterans so they played off that. I am a Mythos writer but these days I actually did more ghost stories than anything. I am starting to get back into writing a Mythos story after doing a novella that played into the Cthulhu Mythos. But a lot of the writers I am influenced by are mainly from Chicago, even though there are a lot of early Brit horror influences in there and New England influenced stories in there.