Writing and Selling (ePub)

Horror for screenwriters is fundamentally about fear. It captivates global audiences with its ability to satisfy our desires to encounter fear, and to test our boundaries in relation to it. As we write this book, World War Z, The Conjuring, Mama, Warm Bodies, The Purge and Evil Dea, great horror scripts, are all in the UK and US box office top 50. On TV, the Dexter scripts have just finished an eigth season, True Blood its sixth and Hannibal its first. A hugely popular genre of scripwriting that works across a range of platforms and production sectors, how, then, does the screenwriter write a horror script? And how do they sell these terrifying scripts in a genre of screenwriting that is constantly cannibalising and mutating itself?
Writing and Selling Horror Screenplays offers a fresh approach to creating narratives for this ever-popular genre. Moving away from simple definitions and Hollywood-centric case studies, the book gives a wide and deep view of horror that crosses cultural and national boundaries to give screenwriters around the world a truly international perspective on writing stories that scare.
It will be the first scriptwriting guide to reflect the diversity of approaches in today's films that deal with the human need for fear and dread.