S04EP09: The Architecture of Horror: Settings in Scary Stories

About this episode

This episode explores the role of settings in horror storytelling and discusses a writing course.

In which we dip our toes into the murky pool that is horror storytelling once more, this time with a focus on settings and the reasons we choose them. I'm looking for beta testers for my horror writing course, Zombie March, so if you're interested, find it here .

People in this episode

Host: Hyba

Topics covered

• horror storytelling
• settings
• writing course
• beta testing
• scary stories

Keywords

• horror
• settings
• writing
• scary stories
• beta testers

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Zombie March

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