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The inception of the show began when writer/director Vera Miao pitched Two Sentence Horror Stories to the Warner Bros. subsidiary Stage 13.. Based on this pitch, the executives at Stage 13 greenlit the short-form, anthology web series to be made on a low-budget and distributed through the Verizon owned streaming service go90.
Writer's Digest described this sentence as "the literary posterchild for bad story starters". [5] On the other hand, the American Book Review ranked it as No. 22 on its "Best first lines from novels" list.
Horror is often divided into the sub-genres of psychological horror and supernatural horror. Literary historian J. A. Cuddon, in 1984, defined the horror story as "a piece of fiction in prose of variable length ... which shocks, or even frightens the reader, or perhaps induces a feeling of repulsion or loathing". [1]
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator Victor Rivas. [1]
The story follows Maud (Morfydd Clark), a hospice nurse who recently set out to live as a devout Christian. Her work and personal lives merge into a bloody mess when she decides to save her ...
Knock" is a science fiction short story by American writer Fredric Brown. It begins with a piece of Flash fiction based on the following passage by Thomas Bailey Aldrich : Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man.
Firestarter is a science fiction-horror thriller novel by Stephen King, first published in September 1980.It tells the story of a young girl, Charlie McGee, with the ability of pyrokinesis, whose destructive force a ruthless government agency tries to harness for their own purposes.
The legend was adapted into a horror movie, 999-9999, in 2002. [ 34 ] The Death ship of the Platte River (or the ghost ship of the Platte River ) is an urban legend about an old sailing ship that appears grey and unnatural, crewed by phantom sailors, sighted between Alcova and Torrington, Wyoming since the mid-1800s.