Chain of Evil

by Dr. Michael R. Collings

Overview

Chain of Evil: The JournalStone Guide to Writing Darkness, by Michael R. Collings, approaches the question of writing from multiple directions. The essays in this volume range from the abstract and philosophical to the concrete and specific; from reminiscences as they relate to the art of writing to near-scholarly studies of the nature of genre, in particular horror; and from general discussions of literary forms and what they can achieve to practical advice on where to place commas, exclamation marks, and quotation marks. Dr. Collings� expertise emerges from nearly thirty years teaching writing and composition at the university level, gaining acclaim as an astute voice in science-fiction, fantasy, and horror studies, as well as from the more than one hundred books�novels, scholarship, collections of poetry and short fiction, criticism, and bibliographies�he has published over the past four decades.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150425637
Publisher:	JournalStone
Publication date:	08/27/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

MICHAEL R. COLLINGS is a Professor Emeritus at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, where he directed the Creative Writing Program for over two decades; the Senior Publications Editor for JournalStone Publications; and a reviewer/columnist for JournalStone.com, Hellnotes, and Dark Discoveries.
He has published over 100 volumes of poetry, novels, short fiction, and scholarly studies of such contemporary writers as Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, Dean R. Koontz, and Piers Anthony. Recent works include The Art and Craft of Poetry (1996, 2009); Toward Other Worlds: Perspectives on John Milton, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, and Others (2010); In Endless Morn of Light: Moral Agency in Milton�s Universe (2010); In the Void: Poems of Science Fiction, Myth and Fantasy, and Horror (2009); Matrix: Growing Up West�Autobiographical Poems (2010); BlueRose and Other Chapbooks (2012); A Verse to Horrors�An Abecedary of Monsters and the Monstrous; HAI-(And Assorted Other)-KU (2012); Deep Music: A Collection of L.D.S. Musical Readings (2012); and a Book of Mormon verse-epic, The Nephiad (1996, 2010).
His fiction, also published through Wildside, includes: The House Beyond the Hill: A Novel of Fear (2007); Wordsmith, Volume One: The Thousand Eyes of Flame (2009) and Wordsmith, Volume Two: The Veil of Heaven (2009); Singer of Lies: A Science-Fantasy Novel (2009); Wer Means Man, and Other Tales of Wonder and Terror (2010); Three Tales of Omne: A Companion to Wordsmith (2010); Devil�s Plague: A Mystery Novel (2011); Serpent�s Tooth (2011); Static!: A Novel of Horror (2011); Shadow Valley (2011); and The Slab (2010), the story of a haunted tract house in Southern California�that consumes people.
Two of his books�the first edition of Writing Darkness and a collection of horror limericks, A Verse to Horrors�An Abecedary of Monsters and the Monstrous�were Finalists for the 2012 Horror Writers Association�s Bram Stoker Awards� for Non-fiction and Poetry, respectively.
With his wife Judith, he has also published a unique cookbook, Whole Wheat for Food Storage: Recipes for Unground Wheat, a revision and expansions of their first joint project, Whole Wheat Harvest (1980).
He is now retired and lives in his native state of Idaho.