From the Frequency spring course & event
listings:
Without plagiarism in our hearts, we read seeking
ideas for our own fictions. A flawed story? Oh joy! Certainly writers of horror
stories are ever-reading through the gothic corpus (corpse?) looking for great
ideas in flawed fictions. We give Karl Edward Wagner’s short story “Sticks” (an
oft-reprinted favorite) a close read and see what we can see that Wagner
didn’t. Most likely, you’ll walk away with an idea for your own horror classic.
Required preparation: read Karl Edward Wagner’s
“Sticks” (this story can be found in several anthologies, including Tales of the Cthulu Mythos: Golden
Anniversary, edited by James Turner; The Dark Descent, edited by David Hartwell; and A Century of Horror (1970 – 1979),
edited by David Drake. All three anthologies are easy to pick up online, and
all three are available in Providence-area libraries). Please bring a copy of
“Sticks” to our meeting.
Also: watch Book of Shadows: The Blair Witch Project 2.
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I teach the course Sunday, April 13, from 10:30am –
2:30pm at 186 Carpenter Street, in Providence. Price for the class is on a
sliding scale, from $25 – 60. You can either pre-register or pay at the door. Find out why I think Wagner’s story is flawed and
why I’d ask anyone to watch the sequel to The Blair Witch Project.
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