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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 […]
February 16th, 2023 | Filed under Headline,Horror,Professional | Read More »
Question: If you had to label your work, what genre tag would you put on the bulk of it? Horror and dark fiction/art seem to be the two big winners here, in terms of how we would label our work, if we had to label our work. Many of us balk at having to label, […]
September 17th, 2012 | 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
April 5th, 2012 | Filed under Books,Headline | Read More »
Question: What are your favorite monsters and what specifically appeals to you about them? A lot of us love the classic Universal monsters and could not choose just one. Some of us most fear the monsters we recognize the best for our worst impulses — murderers, serial killers, angry and sad people. Some of us […]
April 3rd, 2012 | Filed under Headline,Horror,Movies,Professional | Read More »
Question: Does a storyline seem more or less frightening to you, when BDSM themes are included, such as those in Hellraiser or Ichi the Killer? Some of us find BDSM imagery aesthetically pleasing or erotic and some of us find it unappealing or dull. However, we nearly universally feel that, no matter what the elements […]
October 5th, 2011 | Filed under Books,Headline,Horror,Movies,Professional | 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 […]
May 18th, 2011 | Filed under Books,Dark TV,Headline,Horror,Movies | Read More »
Question: What 2010 horror releases (film or book) did you find most notable? The results are in from our Gothic.net Panel of Experts. Literary horror culture is aware of history and how literature, in whatever medium, builds upon what came before. So a lot of us spent 2010 catching up on releases from prior years […]
February 15th, 2011 | Filed under Books,Dark TV,Headline,Horror,Movies | Read More »
Born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Marcy Italiano now lives in Waterloo, Ontario. On May 30, 2008, her wonderful identical twin boys, Kaden and Thomas, were born. She went to Bishop Ryan High School in Hamilton and the University of Waterloo. She has worked as a webmaster since 2005. Previous to that she came […]
January 20th, 2011 | Filed under Who's Who | Read More »