Looking for places to send your monster stories? We’ve posted links to some places looking for urban fantasy, horror stories, science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction.

Now revised! Introducing a media platform for authors that we’ll be using to complement Monster Complex™. Meet some other authors who also use Substack—including several who write horror, fantasy, and related kinds of fiction.

Sharing excerpts from author interviews, including blockbuster horror authors Anne Rice and Stephen King, and more. Also sharing more info about the authors and links for further reading.

The award-winning author of bestselling novels, short fiction, and comics, Joe Hill shares how he starts a book, what makes the best horror stories, and why some horror films just don’t work.

“I have a lot of nightmares. I have gotten into the habit of writing them down.” Watch this conversation with horror writers S.A. Barnes, Christopher Golden, and Anne Heltzel as they discuss their books and the appeals of reading horror novels.

“I think that ideas occur to you when you’re not necessarily looking for them.” Book and Author Society hosted a panel discussion with popular horror authors Linda Addison, Hailey Piper, Chuck Wendig, Lisa Morton, and Cynthia Pelayo. Watch the discussion here.

A panel discussion where authors Daniel Willcocks, Leanna Renee Hieber, and Andrea Janes talk about what makes horror fiction connect with readers. “You have to feel some kind of empathy for that character.”

Author Tim Waggoner talks to Monster Complex about Writing in the Dark: The Workbook. “Characters need to have realistic responses moment to moment, even if they’re in an unrealistic situation.”

Throughout history, we can see people divide themselves into groups and use violence to discriminate. Custom-Writing.org has posted “Dehumanization & Monsters in Literature.”

Including tips and advice from Stephen King, Anne Rice, Zoraida Córdova, H.P. Lovecraft, Linda D. Addison, Peter Straub, Faith Hunter, Dean Koontz, Nalini Singh, Shirley Jackson, and more! 

“I’ve seen it done well and I’ve seen it done marginally well, and I’ve seen it done poorly.”

Horror legend Stephen King published his debut novel, CARRIE, in 1974. King, then working as a high school English teacher, had written three novels before he started writing CARRIE.