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|  | "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack Faber
« Thread Started on Mar 10, 2007, 9:42pm » | ![[Quote]](http://s2.images.proboards.com/buttons/quote.gif "[Quote]") |
Hello, and welcome to the public discussion forum of Fantastic Horror. The topic of this thread is "How to Write Horror Fiction — A Fandango" by Jack Faber, featured in Issue #0.
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If you haven't read the article yet, STOP RIGHT HERE and go read it!! This discussion may contain spoilers. At the end of the article, you'll find a link back to this thread.
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #1 on Apr 7, 2007, 2:29pm » | |
it might be fun to hold a contest (when there are enough forum members) to see who can write the best short story according to these satirical guidelines. what say you?
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #2 on Apr 7, 2007, 6:54pm » | |
Fun, frightening or hideous?
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #3 on Apr 7, 2007, 7:24pm » | |
i'd say the best one would be all three and more! i've seen contests where people try to write the worst fiction ever, but these rules should give us some capacity for actual merit. so these stories wouldn't be just throw-away exercises, but more like editorial cartoons.. except in words.
heck, there could even be an art contest with the same objective.. if we get more pumped in the art department
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #4 on Apr 7, 2007, 8:44pm » | |
Well, I guess we could try it.
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #5 on May 24, 2008, 9:14am » | |
Law #2 is unjust. I am going to have to almost completely disagree. How often did the masters use sex? If it's not integral, it's not needed. Sex scenes are a modern invention of Hollywood, not the horror fiction of our forefathers. Anyway, is this even serious or did I just make an ass out of myself? Oh, well. I'm used to being an ass.
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #6 on May 24, 2008, 10:01am » | |
you've picked up the signal: this 'fandango' is satire. don't feel stupid though, i'm sure a lot of people have read it and taken it seriously. FH salutes you for openly disputing even one of these rules!
but it would sure make for a lively thread if someone were to come in here and argue for the techniques outlined in the article. of course, you could just read a majority of the horror fiction available today, which serves the same purpose...
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #7 on May 24, 2008, 9:57pm » | |
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The old , blind farmer finished the bottle of coke that was given to him by the twenty year old nurse who was hired to take the old man off the hands of his burdened family. He let out a belch and threw the empty bottle toward his last idea of the placement of the rotten barn.
"That was NEW coke you dirty bitch, why did the Pepsi-Cola company ever fuck with the ingredients?"
As the nurse dodged the path of the flying bottle the top two buttons of her outfit popped loose.
"I know it was the commies who switched the recipe, I fought those red bastards in '42 and still, the red tide is relentless. I can't believe they took away my Coke. MY coke."
The nurse was confused, she hated the old man, yet, she found herself unbuttoning the third and fourth clasp on her outfit.
The old man was blinded in the war but he knew that the red label on his beloved coke bottle and the commies were one in the same.
The nurse finished the job of oral copulation on the old man and was buttoning her outfit when she felt a cold pain in her stomach.
"My coke, you dirty bitch, My coke." the old man said as he twisted the broken coke bottle in and out of the nurse's belly.
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #8 on May 25, 2008, 12:04am » | |
an instant classic the whole family will love. it brings everything to the table and doesn't waste my time. and it makes me thirsty!
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #9 on May 25, 2008, 9:40am » | |
Mr. JJ,
I like you even though I've never seen your face, heard your voice, met your wife, or had dinner at your place.
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #10 on May 25, 2008, 3:05pm » | |
... or have you?? that jealous shrew paid you to spy on me, didn't she! i suppose you were going to get me drunk so i'd brag on tape about all the other
nevermind.
heh heh heh, you're all right bobby, you're ok. go on & set a spell
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #11 on May 26, 2008, 10:08am » | |
May 25, 2008, 3:05pm, JJ Burke wrote:... or have you?? that jealous shrew paid you to spy on me, didn't she! i suppose you were going to get me drunk so i'd brag on tape about all the other
nevermind.
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Where in the forum do I ask the question I asked you in the PM?
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| | Re: "HowtoWriteHorrorFiction—A Fandango" by Jack F
« Reply #12 on May 26, 2008, 10:37am » | |
depending on whose feedback you wish to invite, you can start the discussion anywhere in the public area or in the contributors' workshop. i don't think the workshop has been used at such an early stage of the writing process, but you are welcome to post in there if you don't want to leak your idea(s) to the general public.
ps. i should mention 'new thread'—make a new thread for it
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