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How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction

by J.N. Williamson · 1987

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The masters of speculative fiction share how-to instruction on writing stories about the weird, the fantastic, the unknown and the imagined, in 27 succinct chapters.

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science fictionfantasyhorror
Themes
writers
Audience
adult

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