Description:
A revolutionary writing guide that reveals how to weaponise mass hysteria in fiction. Craft contagious terror that spreads. This book shows how to break your readers' trust in reality and make them question their own sanity.
Brief description: Monica Carroll is an award-winning Australian poet, fiction writer, and arts practitioner whose work spans horror, weird fiction, and experimental literature. Winner of the Robert N. Stephenson Award (2024), the Dorothy Porter Crime in Verse Award (2007), and the Katherine Sussanah Pritchard Short Story Award (2006), Carroll has published extensively in literary journals, anthologies, and small presses. Her recent works include poetry collections, artist books, and the collaborative project "Spirit Level: Strange Tools & Story" with Dark Cave Press. A former Donald Horne Cultural Creative Fellow, she brings her expertise in poetic form and psychological horror to this groundbreaking guide for writers.