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A month’s worth of Horror writing lesson plans stemming from monsters. Monster Theory is an  extremely rich vein to mine.

ZOMBIES. VAMPIRES. ALIENS.

What is fear?...

Still from John Carpenter’s The Fog (1981)

Horror writing lesson plans

"...Why do dark stairwells scare us? Why did Psycho give me nightmares, while my cousin Mike just laughed at the shower scene? Why do different cultures create different monsters? There are a number of theories about fear."
Tom Durwood
Author

"My heart began to race as I wrote my first Horror essay"

-Miranda, Student