Resources for Horror Fans, Writers & Others

These resources go with the current display by the stairway on the main floor of Hunter Library.

PERSONAL SITES (writers shown in the photos)

Diana Barron: http://www.dianabarron.com/
Robert J. Conley: http://www.robertjconley.com/
Owl Goingback: http://www.owlgoingback.com/
Jemiah Jefferson: http://www.jemiah.com/portalofme.html AND
http://www.sniffylinings.com/sniffy/authors/jemiah/jemiah.html
Brian Keene: http://www.briankeene.com/
Jack Ketchum: http://jackketchum.net/
Stephen King: http://www.stephenking.com AND http://www.horrorking.com/
Richard Laymon: http://www.ains.net.au/~gerlach/rlaymon.htm AND http://www.malcasapoint.com/ AND http://www.zianet.com/rsace/laymon.html
Edward Lee: http://www.edwardleeonline.com/

Mary Shelley just search the web or start at:
http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/maryshel/shelsite.shtml [Mary Shelley page]
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html [Frankenstein page]

Bram Stoker just search the web or start at:
http://www.geocities.com/psmcalduff/ [Bram Stoker page]
http://stoker.thefreelibrary.com/ [Bram Stoker page]

Additional resources

Dracula and vampires: http://www.vampirelibrary.com/ AND http://www.vampirelibrary.com/titles.htm

Listservs are available for Richard Laymon, Horror Literature and Films, and other topics.

News groups (http://groups.google.com) include rec.arts.horror (especially rec.arts.horror.written), alt.horror.cthulhu, and alt.folklore.ghost-stories.

There are many personal bulletin boards where horror topics (books, movies) are discussed. Vampires and zombies (http://www.allthingszombie.com/) are especially well represented. One excellent general horror board is run by Shocklines Press, at http://pub117.ezboard.com/bshocklinesforum. Another is Horror World (URL as of Oct. 31) http://www.horrorworld.org/.

Free fiction can be found at numerous sites (search for “horror fiction” or “horror stories”), including many author sites. One of the best is http://www.horrorfind.com/fiction-bin/story.cgi where the fiction editor, Brian Keene, is also a published author (see our collection).

If you need to know in what collection a particular story appeared, the Locus Index is one of the best places to begin: http://www.locusmag.com/index/0start.html. It covers both horror and science fiction. Fantastic Fiction (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/) lists titles by author.

Helpful sites for authors include Ralan’s (http://www.ralan.com/) with Markets information (and places to avoid!), and the Horror Writers Association (HWA) (http://www.horror.org/), especially the writing tips page (http://www.horror.org/writetips.htm). Although the HWA costs money to join, there are parts, like the writing tips, that are free.

Some recent Hunter Library Reference books

St. James guide to horror, ghost & gothic writers / with a preface by Dennis Etchison ; editor, David Pringle Detroit, MI : St. James Press, c1998
PN3435.Z9 S72 1998

Supernatural fiction writers : contemporary fantasy and horror / Richard Bleiler, editor
Publisher New York : Charles Scribner's Sons : Thomson/Gale, c2003
PN3435 .S96 2003 vol. 1-2

Reference guide to science fiction, fantasy, and horror / Michael Burgess
Publisher Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1992
PN3433.5.Z9 B87 1992

Fantasy and horror : a critical and historical guide to literature, illustration, film, TV, radio, and the Internet / edited by Neil Barron
Publisher Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1999
PN56.F34 F35 1999

Pay for Print at Western

http://www.wcu.edu/it/P4P/index.htm

What is Pay for Print?
As of Monday, October 18, Western will charge for print copies at all open access Student Computer Labs and Hunter Library.

Where is it?
# Hunter Library's Public Area
# Hunter Lab
# Forsyth 320 Lab
# Moore 202 Lab
# Killian 268 Lab(during open lab hours)

How much does it cost?
# 8 cents per B&W page using CatCash on a Western CatCard
# 10 cents per B&W page using coins
# 75 cents per color page using CatCash on a Western CatCard
(color print option and color release station ONLY in Hunter Computer Lab)

Election 2004 News

November 2nd, 2004 is Election Day. The following are some of the websites compiling election news and information:

Campaign 2004 News - from LexisNexis - http://www.lexisnexis.com/campaign2004
(off-campus users may need their WCU ID to access some documents)

United States Elections 2004 - from the U.S. Department of State - http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/election04/

Project Vote Smart - http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

WCU's own Professor Gary Jones has put together a page of links to partisan and non-partisan resources on the Web - http://paws.wcu.edu/gjones/US_Gov_Pol_Econ_Media.htm

Hunter Library News & Notes

Fall 2004