{"id":475,"date":"2012-07-21T03:08:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T03:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/?page_id=475"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:03:59","slug":"articles","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/non-fiction-2\/articles\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ARTICLES &amp; REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/shepherd.com\/best-books\/collections-of-classic-ghost-stories\">&#8220;Best Ghost Story Collections&#8221;<\/a> for Shepherd.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/horror.org\/halloween-haunts-weird-women-take-on-halloween-five-early-halloween-works-by-women-by-lisa-morton\/\">&#8220;Halloween Haunts: Weird Women Take on Halloween&#8221;<\/a> for the Horror Writers Association&#8217;s blog<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nightmare-magazine.com\/nonfiction\/the-h-word-when-the-final-girl-grows-up\/\">&#8220;The H-Word: When the Final Girl Grows Up&#8221;<\/a> for <em>Nightmare Magazine<\/em> October 2021<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Mothers of the Mexican Gothic&#8221;, <em>Rue Morgue Magazine<\/em> September\/October 2021<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Best Books on Halloween&#8221; at <a href=\"https:\/\/shepherd.com\/best-books\/halloween\">Shepherd.com&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You Really Don&#8217;t Want to Do This: Extreme Haunts and the Boundaries of Horror&#8221; for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightmare-magazine.com\/nonfiction\/the-h-word-you-really-dont-want-to-do-this\/\">Nightmare Magazine<\/a> <\/em>September 2019<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;When It&#8217;s Their World: Writing for the Themed Anthology&#8221; for <em>It&#8217;s Alive: Bringing Your Nightmares to Life<\/em> (Crystal Lake Publishing)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/lisamorton.com\/zine\/fantasmagoriana-or-the-ghost-stories-that-galvanized-frankenstein\/\">&#8220;<em>Fantamagoriana;<\/em>&nbsp;or, The Ghost Stories That Galvanized <em>Frankenstein<\/em>&#8220;<\/a> for <em>Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein&#8217;s Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties<\/em> (Firbolg Publishing)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Drive-in Delinquents&#8221; for <em>The Art of Pulp Horror<\/em> (Applause Books)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Happy Birthday Clive Barker&#8221; for <em>The Bite<\/em> newsletter from Shudder TV (October 8, 2018)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;All Hail the Pumpkin King&#8221; for my author newsletter #20 (August 2018)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The H-Word: Dementia and the Horror Writer&#8221; for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nightmare-magazine.com\/nonfiction\/the-h-word-dementia-and-the-writer\/\"><em>Nightmare<\/em> Magazine May 2018<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Evil &#8217;80s&#8221; for <em>The Art of Horror Movies <\/em>(Applause Books)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Skeptic&#8217;s Guide to Ghost Hunting&#8221;, <em>Gamut<\/em> Magazine #1<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Real Creeps, or How to Create Horror Non-fiction Shorts&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/halloween-haunts-real-creeps-create-horror-non-fiction-shorts-lisa-morton\/\">Halloween Haunts 2016<\/a>, reprinted in <em>Where Nightmares Come From: The Art of Horror Storytelling<\/em> (Crystal Lake, 2017)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Proton Packs and PKE Meters&#8221; &#8211; How <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> influenced real paranormal investigations, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reaktionbooks.co.uk\/browse\/article_detail\/Proton_Packs_and_PKE_Meters\">Reaktion Books blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Submit!: Some Long Truths About Short Fiction&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/writetips\/writetips-morton2.htm\">HWA&#8217;s site<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Review of Kim Liggett&#8217;s <em>Blood and Salt<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyjournalofbooks.com\/book-review\/blood\">New York Journal of Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Review of the graphic novel <em>The Evil Within<\/em> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyjournalofbooks.com\/book-review\/evil-within\">New York Journal of Books<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Halloween chapter for <em>The Art of Horror <\/em>(Applause Books)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Halloween&#8221; entry for <em>The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A Halloween Primer for Horror Writers&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/232067184\/A-Halloween-Primer-for-Horror-Writers-by-Lisa-Morton\">Scribd.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Setting in Horror&#8221; appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/039916555X\/ref=s9_psimh_gw_p14_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=center-2&amp;pf_rd_r=0GXYDRPQXF74XA3Y85B7&amp;pf_rd_t=101&amp;pf_rd_p=1688200382&amp;pf_rd_i=507846\"><em>Now Write: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror<\/em><\/a> (Penguin)<\/li>\n<li>Another &#8220;Women in Horror Month&#8221; guest blog, this one at Becky Spratford&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/raforallhorror.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/wihm-guest-post-by-lisa-morton.html\">RA for ALL: Horror&#8221; blog<\/a>, all about how I create female protagonists<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Women in Horror Month&#8221; blog for <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/?p=5611\">HWA<\/a>, about books with great female protagonists<\/li>\n<li>A &#8220;Women in Horror Month&#8221; guest blog at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7082805.Natasha_Ewendt\/blog\">Natasha Ewendt&#8217;s blog <\/a>on ten great female editors<\/li>\n<li>Here I am at SF Signal&#8217;s &#8220;Mind Meld&#8221;, discussing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsignal.com\/archives\/2014\/02\/mind-meld-best-worst-genre-movie-adaptations\/\">best &amp; worst genre movie adaptations<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Female Protagonists in Horror&#8221; at HWA&#8217;s 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/?p=5611\">&#8220;Women in Horror Month&#8221;<\/a> blog<\/li>\n<li>My essay &#8220;Sisters are Killin&#8217; it for Themselves: Women in Horror&#8221; appears in Damnation&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00AMK0N9Q\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=lisamorcom0c-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00AMK0N9Q\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Telling Tales of Terror<\/a><\/em>, edited by Kim Richards<\/li>\n<li>My essay &#8220;The Walking Dead and The Dance of Death&#8221; appears in the BenBella book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartpopbooks.com\/authors\/lisa-morton\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Triumph of The Walking Dead<\/a><\/em>, edited by James Lowder.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why I Keep Writing Books About Halloween&#8221; at Becky Spratford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/raforallhorror.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/31-days-of-horror-day-31-guest-post-by.html\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RA for All: Horror<\/a> blog<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Ten Classics of Halloween Fiction&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=2116\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Musings of the Monster Librarian<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A guest post at <a href=\"http:\/\/frellathon.com\/2011\/12\/07\/guest-post-by-lisa-morton-author-of-monsters-of-l-a\/\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jess Resides Here<\/a> on &#8220;Five Things You May Not Know About L.A.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s one at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.workingforthemandroid.com\/main\/2011\/12\/8\/guest-post-lisa-morton-author-of-monsters-of-la.html\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Working for the Mandroid<\/a> on the zombies in <em>Monsters of L.A.<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>This one at <a href=\"http:\/\/passionfornovels.blogspot.com\/2011\/12\/author-spotlight-and-guest-post.html\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Passion for Novels<\/a> talks a little about the differences between writing novels and short stories.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/58581505\/Horror-and-Terror-Slashers-and-Stumps\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Horror and Terror, Slashers and Stumps&#8221;<\/a> is a four-part discussion about the state of modern horror between myself, Christopher Conlon, Kurt Newton and Norman Prentiss<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/benjikane.livejournal.com\/38466.html\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;How I Surprised Myself and Became a Halloween Expert&#8221;<\/a>, guest blog for Benjamin Kane Ethridge<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kealanpatrick.wordpress.com\/2011\/10\/13\/halloween-guest-blog-lisa-morton\/\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Halloween Misconceptions&#8221;<\/a>, at Kealan Patrick Burke&#8217;s blog<\/li>\n<li>My essay on the Hong Kong movie <i>The Untold Story<\/i> (&#8220;Putting the Lie to the Inner Slasher&#8221;) appears in Vince A. Liaguno&#8217;s slasher movie essay collection <em>Butcher Knives and Body Counts<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Why Writing Horror Screenplays is REALLY Scary&#8221; appears in Writers Workshop of Horror, edited by Michael Knost<\/li>\n<li>Some book reviews for The Black Glove: Rio Youers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/the-black-glove.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/bloody-pages-book-reviews.html\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">End Times<\/a>, Rocky Wood and Glenn Chadbourne&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/the-black-glove.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/bloody-pages-book-reviews.html\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Horrors!<\/a>, Andy Duncan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/the-black-glove.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/bloody-pages-book-reviews.html\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Night Cache<\/a>, Joel Lane&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/the-black-glove.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/bloody-pages-book-reviews.html\" target=\"main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Country<\/a>, and Alison Moore&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/the-black-glove.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/bloody-pages-book-reviews.html\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">When the Door Closed, It Was Dark<\/a><\/li>\n<li>My article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/writers-productivity\/\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Focus! How Writers Can Improve Their Productivity&#8221;<\/a> is free to read at the Cemetery Dance Writers Corner.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pirates! Or, How to Protect Your Intellectual Property on the High Seas of the Internet&#8221; is free online at <a href=\"http:\/\/horror.org\/writetips\/writetips-morton.htm\">HWA&#8217;s site<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Smart Broads and Tough Guys: The Strange World of Vintage Paperbacks&#8221;, published in the July 2008 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/clarkesworldmagazine.com\/morton_07_08\/\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clarkesworld<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Acts of Darkness: Writing Horror for the Small Stage&#8221;, On Writing Horror, published by the Horror Writers Association and Writers Digest<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Screamplays! Writing the Horror Film&#8221;, four-part series on writing horror screenplays, originally written for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horror.org\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HWA<\/a>&#8216;s newsletter<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Have Special Effects Killed Horror?&#8221;, <i>Horror<\/i> #7<\/li>\n<li>Movie reviews, <i>Horror<\/i>, various from 1997-1999 (also served as Contributing Editor for Horror during this time)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Throwdown&#8221; movie reviews (with Michael Marano), Chizine.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<strong>COLUMNS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>My column on antiquarian bookselling, &#8220;From Dusty Shelves&#8221;, is now running at <a href=\"http:\/\/horrorworld.org\/hw\/author\/lisa-morton\/\" target=\"_main\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Horror World<\/a><\/li>\n<li>My column on Asian horror, &#8220;The East is Red&#8221;, ran at FearZone and The Black Glove (both now defunct), but the reviews are archived at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisamorton.com\/blog\">The East is Red Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Small Scream&#8221;, <i>Horror<\/i>, regular column ran from 1997-1999 (television reviews)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>INTRODUCTIONS\/AFTERWORDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foreword for the anthology of papers from the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference (McFarland &amp; Co., Inc., 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Foreword for the anthology <em>The Horror Zine&#8217;s Book of Ghost Stories<\/em> (2018)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Introduction for Gene O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s <em>The Burden of Indigo<\/em> (Written Backwards, 2015)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Foreword&nbsp;for the anthology <em>The Best of Horror Library Volumes 1-5<\/em> (Cutting Block Books, 2015)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Afterword for Michael Louis Calvillo&#8217;s novel <em>As Fate Would Have It<\/em> (Bad Moon Books, 2009)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Introduction for Patrick Freivald&#8217;s novel <em>Twice Shy<\/em> (JournalStone, 2012)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Introduction for Greg Chapman&#8217;s The Last Night of October (Bad Moon Books, 2013)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Introduction for the anthology <em>Deep Cuts<\/em>, edited by E. S. Magill, Angel Leigh McCoy, and Chris Marrs (Evil Jester Press, 2013)<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Introduction for the fiction collection <em>Little by Little<\/em>, by John R. 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