When invited to write nonfiction, part of me rebels. A big part.
All opinions and points of view are subjective, and the pretense of nonfiction that anything is objectively true bothers me. Or the idea that words can do anything more than vaguely point at what’s true, wave their arms around, and by their very selection eliminate more possibilities and truths than they reveal.
Take a topic like transformation in horror, which I’ve been asked to speak about quite a few times. It’s much more than werewolves. It’s deeper than body horror. It is, perhaps, the whole point of writing fiction at all.
Did I write an essay when asked to do so? Yes and no. Things are not that simple. Should you trust a fiction writer to tell you the truth? I’ll let you decide.
God I Feel Murder Tonight: Trauma, Transformation, and Beyond The Normal In Horror appears in the anthology “Like You Never Had Wings: Transformations in Horror” from Filthy Loot, along with legitimate scholarly essays from Charlene Elsby and Kyle Winkler.
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