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Writers, After Dark #75: Craig DiLouie Using terror to build the foundations of a horror story

Writers, After Dark #75: Craig DiLouie Using terror to build the foundations of a horror story

by Summer Brooks | November 15, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Horror author Craig DiLouie stops by to talk about his newest novel, The Children of Red Peak, and building horror from the terror, in this instance following the downward spiral of the members of a cult.

Craig talks about the important elements needed in building a tense psychological horror and how each character may react will influence the story, his research into the psychology of belief and delusion, especially how these can influence how some people become attracted to cults, the path toward destructive cult behaviors, and much more.

Web: craigdilouie.com
Twitter: @craigdilouie

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  • Summer Brooks
    Summer Brooks

    Summer Brooks enjoys putting her additiocn to sci-fi & horror stories to good use in interviewing guests. She is a long-time podcaster, in several roles (co-host , host and producer) for Slice of SciFi since 2005, as co-host for The Babylon Podcast since 2006, and host of Writers, After Dark since 2018.

    She is an avid reader and writer of sci-fi, fantasy, and thrillers, with a handful of publishing credits to her name. Next on her agenda is writing a graphic novel urban fantasy, and a B-movie creature feature.

    Summer also does story narrations for Tales to Terrify, StarShip Sofa, and Escape Pod, among others.

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