A review by lucdiamant
Writing in the Dark by Tim Waggoner

5.0

Everyone who says to buy this book is right. It answered every question I had about writing horror and more. I'm specifically really glad that it addressed the question of how the hero's journey relates to horror (spoiler alert: it doesn't really work the way it does in most genres). Waggoner offers not one but eight basic plot structures that make more sense for horror. And that's just one of the many chapters - plus then there's the appendices and the exercises and the advice he gathered from whoever was willing to respond to his two simple questions. If you want to write horror and you don't get something out of this book, I don't know what resource you will get something out of.