ABOUT US
Fear Knocks literary e-journal started as a project in a writing class at Naropa University in February 2006. Plans for a first print (hard copy) issue of Fear Knocks was scheduled for May 2007, along with T-shirts, party favors, strippers, and possibly payment to authors for their work. Unfortunately, the Editor has been doing everything out of hide for the last two years, so... The good news, the Editor is now an MFA holder and may have more time to work on Fear Knocks.
From the Editor
Fear Knocks! You've opened the door and let it in. Fear Knocks has the potential to become the premiere literary journal on the web for the finest in Horror writing. That said, a word on what will be here. Horror encompasses many genres and takes many forms, from downright sleep with the lights on at night stories to the more subtle psychologically chilling tales that make us suspect our neighbors of something. As a reader of Horror, names like Poe, Shelley, and Stoker top my list; however, Robert R. McCammon, Anne Rice, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, and Robert Louis Stevenson also swim to the surface. Ghost stories told around the campfires of hunters and boy scouts, Halloween, movie monsters, or the nightmare once had, but never forgotten, all contribute to what will appear here. I like Horror and I like things that scare me (even if I don't always answer Fear's knocking).
I also want to ensure readers will see thought provoking, well written prose and poetry. In addition to providing the best new Horror, I plan to expose readers to the really classic pieces in the genre. Many pieces of great Horror writing have gone out of print, or are languishing in the free public domain. I plan to present a piece or two each month, in addition to the featured writers, so that the great Horror masters of the past are not forgotten, decomposing in the graveyard of pulp fiction. I hope you will join me, not only as writers and readers, but as participating members in this enterprise. Your feedback will always be appreciated, read, and considered.
Fear Knocks - Let it in!
From the Editor
Fear Knocks! You've opened the door and let it in. Fear Knocks has the potential to become the premiere literary journal on the web for the finest in Horror writing. That said, a word on what will be here. Horror encompasses many genres and takes many forms, from downright sleep with the lights on at night stories to the more subtle psychologically chilling tales that make us suspect our neighbors of something. As a reader of Horror, names like Poe, Shelley, and Stoker top my list; however, Robert R. McCammon, Anne Rice, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, and Robert Louis Stevenson also swim to the surface. Ghost stories told around the campfires of hunters and boy scouts, Halloween, movie monsters, or the nightmare once had, but never forgotten, all contribute to what will appear here. I like Horror and I like things that scare me (even if I don't always answer Fear's knocking).
I also want to ensure readers will see thought provoking, well written prose and poetry. In addition to providing the best new Horror, I plan to expose readers to the really classic pieces in the genre. Many pieces of great Horror writing have gone out of print, or are languishing in the free public domain. I plan to present a piece or two each month, in addition to the featured writers, so that the great Horror masters of the past are not forgotten, decomposing in the graveyard of pulp fiction. I hope you will join me, not only as writers and readers, but as participating members in this enterprise. Your feedback will always be appreciated, read, and considered.
Fear Knocks - Let it in!
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