Question: Do you feel it is better for a book or story to be classified as horror or mystery or literature? Yes! This feature marks the return of Gothic.net’s popular Panel of Experts series! Part of the study of library science is figuring out how to categorize books to make them findable and comparable. Book classification can really impact which readers are likely to find the book a writer may have spent years crafting and perfecting. Sometimes a theme will definitely appeal to horror fans […]
February 16th, 2023 | Filed under Headline,Horror,Professional | Read More »
Question: Do you like doing readings and signings? Interestingly, more than three quarters of us like or mostly like doing reading and/or signings. For some of us readings and signings are a crucial way of staying in touch with the people who read our work, an up-close-and-personal method for getting a sense of what the readers enjoy and what does not move them. We like being in front of an audience who cares about what we do. When Gothic.net asked the Panel of Experts this […]
May 19th, 2012 | Filed under Books,Events,Headline,Horror,Professional | Read More »
Question: What do you think of Facebook, its current role, and its future? Facebook seems to be winning the SNS battle for the hearts and time-sucks of horror professionals. We worry about privacy issues on Facebook and we worry about how much creativity energy it can use up. But we love the elegant user-friendly interface. It is just so easy to use Facebook. Plus, although a few of us boycott the site or visit it very rarely, most horror writers and editors and artists seem […]
May 13th, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Lifestyle,Professional | Read More »
Question: Do you enjoy novels or anthologies more? Why? A little more than half of us prefer novels to anthologies. We like to be truly transported for hours. We like to get to know memorable characters deeply. We love to immerse ourselves in a good author’s fully-realized vision. This does not mean that we are evenly split between preferring anthologies and preferring novels. Only around a sixth of us prefer anthologies. Some of us love the intense sharp shock of a good short horror story. […]
April 5th, 2012 | Filed under Books,Headline | Read More »
Question: What was the first movie or book or television show that scared you? We are a motley bunch with both some pretty disparate and even shocking influences and some very real commonalities. Some of the answers here are eye-openingly unique and some are horror classics. Given that the question is about the first media which scared us, it is no surprise that some children’s fare made the list of our Gothic.net Panel of Experts. Probably to be expected that the Wizard of Oz was […]
May 18th, 2011 | Filed under Books,Dark TV,Headline,Horror,Movies | Read More »
Gabrielle Faust’s diverse talents have allowed her to pursue an eclectic career as an illustrator, technohorror author and leading industry entertainment critic. 2005 marked the release of her first published collection of poetry, Before Icarus, After Achilles, which was received by the public with a great enthusiasm. Faust partnered with Immanion Press in August of 2007 for the publishing of her cross-genre technohorror trilogy Eternal Vigilance, a post-apocalyptic vampire saga of epic proportions, the first of which, From Deep Within the Earth, was released in […]
May 10th, 2011 | Filed under Who's Who | Read More »
