William Cook

Tim Waggoner graciously let me reblog this fascinating little exploration of his on writing horror. THE (EXTREMELY) SHORT GUIDE TO WRITING HORROR  BY TIM WAGGONER Horror comes from a fear of the unknown. Keep a sense of mystery going in your story. What’s happening? Why is it happening? What’s going to happen next? How much worse is it going to get? Horror comes from a violation of what your characters consider to be normal reality. This violation shakes them to their very core because it raises the possibility that everything they thought they knew is wrong and that anything could happen. The Universe isn’t orderly or benign. It’s chaotic and malicious. Dread is the mounting anticipation of a threat drawing ever closer. Terror is a deep emotional and intellectual reaction to a threat, a profound realization that reality isn’t what we thought it was. Horror is an immediate reaction to a threat – disbelief, denial, turning away. Shock is a surprise, an ad...

"Charlee Jacob...is clearly one of the best new writers working in the horror field today..."  - Edward Lee, author of City Infernal and Dahmer’s Not Dead "If horror literature has a queen, it is without a doubt Charlee Jacob."  - Brian Hopkins, Bram Stoker Award Winning Author "She has a fevered imagination, flashes of which would certainly give Clive Barker a run for his money...."   - Brian Hodge, CyberPsychos AOD "[Charlee] drapes her fiction in mysticism, dives deep into the unexplainable, the enigmatic and the totally insane."  - Tom Piccirilli, Author of A Lower Deep Charlee Jacob - Bio Charlee Jacob has been a digger for dinosaur bones, a seller of designer rags, and a cook - to mention only a few things. With more than 950 publishing credits, Charlee has been writing dark poetry and prose for more than 25 years. Some of her recent publishing events include the novel STILL (Necro), the po...

9mm: An interview with William Cook Kia ora everyone! Greetings from the bottom of the world, and welcome to the latest edition of Crime Watch's popular 9mm author interview series. The series has been a bit sporadic in recent times, after starting off with a hiss and a roar, maintained for a couple of years, but there is light at the end of the tunnel - I have several great 9mm interviews with authors famed and lesser-known in the bag, and will be sharing them with you all very, very soon. Onwards... Today's author interviewee is a Kiwi horror and thriller writer, William Cook. He had his first novel, BLOOD RELATED, published in 2011, after writing short stories and poetry. Cook, who is a graphic designer and book cover artist, is currently working on his second novel. You can read more about him at his website here . But for now, he faces down the barrel of 9mm... 9MM: An interview with William Cook Who is your favourite recurring crime ficti...

New trailer for Dreams of Thanatos - book available now from Amazon.com. Dreams of Thanatos is a collection of macabre short fiction from William Cook, the author of the novel Blood Related . Demons, murderers and ghosts roam these pages although the most horrifying aspect Cook describes, is the dark soul of humanity. Whether writing about the horrors of modern life, or things that go ‘bump in the night,’ Cook’s writing is always “intense” and often “visceral” in his portrayal of the macabre. Included in this collection of fifteen stories is a novelette ( Dead and Buried ) and the origin story ( Legacy: The Eternal Now and Thereafter ) behind the novel, Blood Related .     “This man is simply scary. There is both a clinical thoroughness and a heartfelt emotional thoroughness to his writing. He manages to shock as well as empathize, to scare as well as acclimatize, yet beneath it all is a well read intelligence that demands to be engaged. I loved B...