Guide Dog Books
an imprint of Raw Dog Sreaming Press
* Non-Fiction
* Collects Matthew Warner's Author's Notes columns plus other articles
* Trade Hardcover & Paperback coming in September 2008
* Cover image & design by Deena Warner
Publisher's Description
“Horror isn’t just a genre of stories but an outlook on life,” Matthew Warner writes in his foreword to Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word: Essays on Writing & Appreciating the Genre. In this collection of articles published between 2002 and 2007, the author of The Organ Donor, Death Sentences, and Eyes Everywhere challenges us to look beyond the stereotypes associated with a much-maligned type of fiction. Horror empowers us to cope with our fears by teaching us about them, he says, either overtly or through symbolism. It’s not just about blood and guts.
This collection consists mostly of editorials written for the Horror World website, plus selected articles from venues such as Hellnotes Newsletter. Warner runs the gamut in subject matter—everything from ghost hunting, to gory holiday decorations, to effective writing techniques—in his meditations about horrific things, whether they be fictional or real.
Contents include some of his most controversial columns: “My Summer with a Book Doctor: An internship at Edit Ink, a notorious scam operation,” “Message Versus Medium: The Agenda of Left Behind,” “Addictive Plotting as Taught by Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” and “Obscenity v. The First Amendment: Why the prosecution of X-rated films affects books.”
Contents
Foreword: Into the Asylum
AUTHOR’S NOTES
I’ll Have One Large Blood Shake and a Side-Order of Stereotypes, Please (Nov. 2004)
Now for the Moral of This Story: Don’t Swim in the Company’s Pool With Your Manuscript (Dec. 2004)
Tips on Good (Collaboration) Parenting (Jan. 2005)
A Monologue about Dialogue: Part 1 (Feb. 2005)
A Monologue about Dialogue: Part 2 (March 2005)
Addictive Plotting as Taught by Buffy the Vampire Slayer (April 2005)
With the Eyes of God (short story, May 2005)
With the Eyes of a Writer (May 2005)
Conquering America’s Greatest Fear (June 2005)
A Website Design Manifesto (July 2005)
Setting Horror Close to Home (Aug. 2005)
Hit the Books to Write a Hit (Sept. 2005)
10 Fun Things I’ve Done as a Horror Geek (Oct. 2005)
To Be or Not To Be a Reader (Nov. 2005)
Message Versus Medium: The Agenda of Left Behind (Dec. 2005)
My Summer with a Book Doctor: An internship at Edit Ink, a notorious scam operation (March 2006)
Once Upon a Gory Fairy Tale (June 2006)
The Horror of Schizophrenia (Sept. 2006)
How Not to Decorate Your Home for the Holidays (Dec. 2006)
The Audition (March 2007)
Things Learned at the Citizen’s Police Academy (June 2007)
Do Horror Movies Make Us Violent Killers? (Sept. 2007)
Obscenity v. The First Amendment:
Why the prosecution of X-rated films affects books (Dec. 2007)
OTHER ARTICLES
Plebes Graduate From First Borderlands Boot Camp (Feb. 2005)
China’s Organ Trade and Horror Novels: How I Brought In an Unusual Pro Bono Client (Winter 2002)
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