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2020 Stoker Award Finalist

Fiction

Introduction to the Horror Story, Day 1

by Kurt Fawver

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Welcome to Introduction to the Horror Story. This is an upper level course with extensive reading and writing assignments as well as a practical component. It has no prerequisites other than existence and consciousness, which I believe all of you possess, though I may be wrong.

In Nov. 2020 (Issue 98)

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