Do you want to give your readers goose bumps? Do you want to inspire nightmares? Then this is the book for you. Inside, you’ll find everything I’ve learned from a decade of authoring ghost stories, including:
- The Principles of Terror
- Discover the basic qualities that make something scary
- Learn how to apply the unknown, uncanniness, subtlety, and more to your writing
- The Ghost Story Framework
- Crack the secrets of idea generation to craft a story that is both original and terrifying
- Understand the structure of a ghost story for maximum fright impact
- Creepy Case Studies
- Study examples from novels, short stories, and films
- Dive deep into one of my own ghost stories to see how it all works in practice
- Practical Exercises
- Stretch your creativity and train your spooky skills with specially crafted writing assignments
- Put together everything you’ve learned to write your own scary ghost story