What’s The Scariest Thing You’ve Ever Written? A Panel Discussion with Horror Writers S.A. Barnes, Christopher Golden, and Anne Heltzel

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Written By Chris Well

The Ashland Public Library in Massachusetts held a panel discussion with horror authors S.A. Barnes, Christopher Golden, and Anne Heltzel.

“I have a lot of nightmares. Constantly. Like several times a week. The type where you have adrenaline just coursing through you when you wake up. And I have gotten into the habit of writing them down.”

Are you someone who loves to read scary stories into the night? Do you shiver when you see a Stephen King book at the library? Do you get a thrill from looking for the TSTL campers or anyone wearing a Jason mask?

If so, 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. This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and was in collaboration with a multitude of MA Libraries.

A Panel Discussion with Horror Writers SA Barnes, Christopher Golden, and Anne Heltzel | Ashland Public Library MA

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About the authors:

S.A. BARNES works in a high school library by day, recommending reads, talking with students, and removing the occasional forgotten cheese stick as bookmark. Her fiction includes Dead Silence—Titanic meets Event Horizon in this SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn’t yet ended. Barnes has also published numerous novels across different genres under the pen name Stacey Kade. Find out more about her books at her Amazon author page.

CHRISTOPHER GOLDEN is the New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of such novels as All Hallows, Ararat, Road of Bones, The Pandora Room, and Red Hands. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of the Outerverse comic book universe, including such series as Baltimore, Joe Golem: Occult Detective, and Lady Baltimore. As an editor, he has worked on the short story anthologies Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror, Dark Cities, and The New Dead, among others, and he has also written and co-written comic books, video games, screenplays, and a network television pilot. In 2015 he founded the popular Merrimack Valley Halloween Book Festival. His work has been nominated for the British Fantasy Award, the Eisner Award, and multiple Shirley Jackson Awards. Find out more about his books at his Amazon author page.

ANNE HELTZEL is a New York-based book editor and horror writer who has written and ghostwritten like a dozen books for people of all ages (many under pseudonyms). Her books include Just Like Mother, Charlie, Presumed Dead, and Circle Nine. By day, Anne works as an editorial director at Abrams Books, where she specializes in entertainment publishing and content development in the children’s division. Find out more about her books at her Amazon author page.

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

https://chriswell.substack.com/
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