![]() ![]() “Horror isn’t always necessarily supernatural,” Maberry notes. It also consists of the everyday darkness YA readers experience. ![]() Horror isn’t comprised solely of monsters. Because it’s defined by how individual readers interpret a story, what one sees as horror may not resonate that way to another. Readers either love or hate horror because it forces them to experience reading in a visceral way. What is horror if the boundaries are difficult to define? It’s any work where the emotions of fear, dread, and/or disgust drive the narrative. The blog offers interviews with authors Kendare Blake, Darren Shan, Barry Lyga, and Holly Black, with more to come. What we’re showing is that horror is different for each person.” Maberry explains, “The blog is built around exploring the nature of horror and of fear, how that’s different for teens and adults, and why so many of today’s writers tackle that subject matter. Boundaries are more blurred and fluid and so it is more difficult to define.” At the Horror Writers Association site, author Jonathan Maberry has developed a YA-specific blog, It’s Scary Out There, to show how horror isn’t just one type of story. As Susan Chang, senior editor of the children’s and young adult division at Tom Doherty Associates (Tor), says, “I think what we define as ‘horror’ has changed since the heyday of the 1980s and 1990s. Stine and Christopher Pike may be our quickest associations with teen screams, horror encompasses a wide array of books. ![]()
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