Love stories about ghosts, monsters and other scary tales but can’t put your finger on what makes them good? Whether the stories are on the page, on TV, or the big screen, there are reasons why they keep you watching on the edge of your seats. This fun and interactive course will include discussions of haunted settings and objects, ghostly words and phrases, spooky creatures from zombies to Frankenstein’s monster, and the structure of frightening tales. Good for writers and anyone who just loves to be scared.
This is a one-night workshop that will meet virtually, via Zoom from 6:30 – 8:30 MST on Tuesday, October 13th.
Patricia Marcantonio is author of the Victorian mystery series, Felicity Carrol and Perilous Pursuit and Felicity Carrol and the Murderous Menace (Crooked Lane Books); Verdict in the Desert (Arte Público Press, the largest US publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by US Hispanic authors); and Red Ridin’ in the Hood and Other Cuentos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) that earned an Anne Izard Storyteller’s Choice Award and was named an Americas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature Commended Title and one of the Wilde Awards Best Collections to Share. Stories from the book are included in a National Geographic School Publishing textbook. She is co-owner of River Street Press, which publishes regional books such as Hauntings From the Snake River Plain. Her screenplays have hit the top percentage in several contests and she took first in the Willamette Writers Kay Snow Screenplay contest. Her original play Tears for Llorona was produced by the Magic Valley Arts Council and will be produced this fall.
