Writer and professor, Lisa Wood, offers a comprehensive deep dive into the study of horror fiction. With importance placed on knowing the history of the genre and how integral to storytelling research is, this textbook will serve as a referenceable guide for anyone interested in writing in the horror genre. This work, which is accessible and detailed at the same time, offers
practical scenarios and industry secrets alongside subgenre review and creative writing instruction.

This textbook gives you the tools you need to craft horror fiction that will challenge the reader as well as frighten them.

A group of friends head out to enjoy a much-deserved night out and paintballing is on the menu. But the team they are playing against has something entirely different in mind.

The friends find themselves in a battle for their lives in unfamiliar terrain against well-equipped opponents whose motivations are both irrational and lethal.  Considered, “… a true trip into the darkest depths of what mankind is capable of at its worst,” by Midwest Book Review, this story is a classic tale of prey combined with slasher film “edge-of-your seat” vibes with a little modern-day relevance to keep you unsettled.

Bloodshot eyes stare at me curiously, peering out of one of those ski masks that cover your whole face. It wasn’t cold enough for that kind of thing – I don’t even think I’ve ever seen one of those in the stores around here. Must have bought it online. Just black. No design, no pattern – nothing to remember. Just black. The eyes are black too. Is it a girl?  A guy?  I don’t know. Thin shoulders, knobby even through the jacket. Like clothes hanging off a skeleton. That’s a weird-assed thing to think of, but that’s what it seems like.

“We cheer for the victories and gasp at the shortfalls, engrossed in the way her unique vision plays out, because it’s delivered with authenticity and an honesty we don’t always get from storytellers.”

– R. J. JOSEPH, AUTHOR OF MONSTROUS DOMESTICITIES

“L. Marie Wood… might be rewriting existences and what we thought we understood reality and free will to be.”

– R. J. JOSEPH, AUTHOR OF MONSTROUS DOMESTICITIES

“[The Realm] brings Cosmic Horror into the 21st century.”

– John R. Robison, Priest, Sci/Fi/ Horror Enthusiast