Adventures of a Bookonaut: Neglected Night Creatures

Feb 15, 2013

Neglected Night Creatures

Lisa L Hannet has released her second column over at This is Horror. If you missed her first it can be found here. That was an excellent article lifting the lid in Australian Gothic.

This article called On Behalf of Neglected Night Creatures briefly discusses the possibility of including less well known or well used night creatures in fiction.

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raventracks 46p · 630 weeks ago

Thanks for this link, Sean! I wandered over to read it and found it very enjoyable. And I can almost hear the gears clicking in the author's head and look forward to seeing what she does with the ideas. I admit to sticking with standard werewolves, but I'm a fantasy writer. If I ever did write horror fiction, I might do fairies, who are historically neither Tinkerbell nor Galadriel, but SCARY, as I found when I was researching them for my first book, Monsters And Creatures Of The Night. And I might have a go at a dybbuk, from my own cultural background(I've had this dybbuk story stewing in my head for years, but can't get it going). In fact, being Eastern European and Jewish is a great background for a horror writer, we have so many scary critters in our folklore.... ;-) Pity I went for fantasy.

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SB Wright 110p · 629 weeks ago

No worries. It would be nicer to see some of the lesser well known night creatures pop up and not in that way where they happen to be just a bit of exotic colour too. I watch Grimm every now and then and its a bit like monster of the week.

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