{"id":137,"date":"2022-06-15T21:15:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patriciaesposito.wordpress.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2024-06-09T15:07:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T15:07:47","slug":"interviews-with-horror-writers-blurring-the-line-anthology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patriciaesposito.com\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Interviews with Horror Writers: Blurring the Line Anthology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Horror can range from stories that elicit heart palpitations to cringing and nausea to an unease that won\u2019t let go. Horror that makes me jump and then laugh at the adrenaline rush can be fun, and I can appreciate the imagery of a well-done slasher scene\u2014both designed to shake us, give us a quick thrill?\u2014but I generally seek out horror that evokes that unnameable unease, that makes me think and wonder and try to establish how the horror might fit in myself or the world I\u2019m part of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Horror and the Unknown<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think the unknown plays into most horror; however, I\u2019m drawn to horror that remains a bit of a mystery, that entails the ambiguous, something that might lie within us if not without, or that we finally perceive with a sense of near awe because it is beyond our control and yet part of this world, not to go away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>Blurring the Line<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the new anthology <em>Blurring the Line<\/em>, editor Marty Young, founding president of the Australian Horror Writers Association and an Australian Shadows Award winner,&nbsp; has pulled together stories that blur the line between reality and fiction, reflecting the strange, often surreal, mystery of our world. Each day, upon the book&#8217;s release, authors in the collection will answer some questions about horror, from what horror is to them to what writers have influenced them most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I will add links to each interview below as they appear each day. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blurring-Line-James-Moore-ebook\/dp\/B0155XB7TY\/\"><em>Blurring the Line<\/em><\/a> is now available, in time for holiday gifts or for a taste of the more sinister during the winter season bustle!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interviews:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanbaxteronline.com\/blurring-line-marty-young-editor\/\">Marty Young<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanbaxteronline.com\/blurring-line-tom-piccirilli\/\">Tom Piccirilli<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanbaxteronline.com\/blurring-line-lisa-morton\/\">Lisa Morton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanbaxteronline.com\/blurring-line-tim-lebbon\/\">Tim Lebbon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanbaxteronline.com\/blurring-line-lia-swope-mitchell\/\">Lia Swope Mitchell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patricia J. Esposito is author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beside-Darker-Shore-Patricia-Esposito-ebook\/dp\/B005BENI5E\">Beside the Darker Shore<\/a> <\/em>and has published numerous works in anthologies, such as Main Street Rag\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mainstreetragbookstore.com\/?product=crossing-lines\">Crossing Lines<\/a><\/em>, Cohesion Press\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blurring-Line-James-A-Moore-ebook\/dp\/B0155XB7TY\">Blurring the Line<\/a>,<\/em> AnnaPurna\u2019s<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Clarify-Annapurna-Magazine\/dp\/1502745542\">Clarify<\/a>, <\/em>Timbre\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storiesofmusic.com\/\">Stories of Music<\/a>, and Undertow\u2019s <em>Apparitions,<\/em>and in magazines, including <em>Not One of Us<\/em>, <em>Scarlet Literary Magazine, Rose and Thorn, Wicked Hollow, <\/em>and<em> Midnight Street<\/em>. She has received honorable mentions in Ellen Datlow&#8217;s <em>Year&#8217;s Best Fantasy and Horror<\/em> collections and is a Pushcart Prize nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horror can range from stories that elicit heart palpitations to cringing and nausea to an unease that won\u2019t let go. 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