Recitatif

July 28, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Recitatif is the French word for recitative, which is a type of spoken performance that’s a combination of regular speech and singing, similar to the […]

Welcome to Lovecraft

April 18, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

Welcome to Lovecraft, the first volume in Joe Hill’s Locke & Key graphic novel series, focuses on siblings Bode, Tyler, and Kinsey Locke relocating from California to […]

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The Yellow Wallpaper

March 12, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 2

The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a brilliant 1892 story that presents the first-person chronicle of a woman in a stifling marriage driven […]

Mr. Hyde

February 27, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has been adapted for movies, television and comics so many times that many people who haven’t read […]

Unreliable Narrators

July 20, 2017 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Caitlín R. Kiernan’s dark fantasy novel The Drowning Girl: A Memoir and Robert W. Chambers’ supernatural story collection The King in Yellow have several themes in common—ancient […]

What is Gaslighting?

March 2, 2017 Lucy A. Snyder 0

I’ve worked with a number of horror writers, and many of my students’ manuscripts deal with characters who are in emotionally or psychologically abusive situations. […]

Who’s Mary Sue?

March 1, 2017 Lucy A. Snyder 0

“Write what you know” is good advice for most any author. And authors typically know themselves better than anyone else (or at least they should; […]