How Knowing Your Monsters Will Help Thrill Your Readers

The Wild Word magazine
Nov 5 · 5 min read

By Caroline Donahue — THE BOOK DOCTOR

There is a sci-fi horror movie that came out in the 90s or early aughties, that promised to be terrifying. Tall letters on the poster screamed “INFINITE SPACE, INFINITE TERROR.” I have absolutely no idea how I was talked into seeing this film in the theater, given that I am not a big horror fan. However, see it I did and as we…

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