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Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar

Cassandra lives in Pennsylvania, where she is an associate professor of English. She is currently completing an MFA degree in Creative Writing with a focus on horror. She has presented scholarship on horror at various conferences and is editing a multi-author volume on the subject. In addition to scholarship, she also writes horror stories.

“Crafting Plot in Horror” is an article that will give prospective writers a view of important elements in writing horror fiction. The style and social function of literature evolved radically in the prose fiction in the 20th century, with the advent of radio, cinema and television. Such 19th-century authors as Edgar Allan Poe may recall at times the style of Goethe’s pre-Romantic novel The Sorrows of Young Werther as well as the realism in the novels of Honoré de Balzac. No one writes in those prose styles today, but they served their purpose at the time.

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Welcome to Bewildering Stories, Cassandra. We’re glad to have you with us.