Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
Best Horror Books for Teens
A course by Raquel Castro , Writer
About the video: Best Horror Books for Teens
Overview
“In this lesson I will tell you about some authors and scary stories that are very popular among teenagers who are fans of the genre.”
In this video lesson Raquel Castro addresses the topic: Best Horror Books for Teens, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults. Learn the best strategies to write horror stories from scratch and keep young adults on the edge of their seats.
Partial transcription of the video
“best scary books for teens In this lesson we will talk about some examples teen books that meet the characteristics of meeting their needs and being scary. The first thing to distinguish is that there are books that were written specifically for teenagers and that meet these characteristics and that there are others that were written for a general public, but that teenagers have adopted as part of their beloved literature. Among these authors we have, for example, Stephen King or Poppy Z. Brite, who write for adults, but that his books are often in adolescent libraries. We have books that w...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Horror Writing for Young Adults
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Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Narrative, Storytelling, Writing
Raquel Castro
A course by Raquel Castro
Raquel Castro is passionate about stories: listening to them, reading them, watching them on the screen... but above all, inventing them. In particular, she likes to write humor and horror, as well as cover topics related to adolescence and childhood.
Her first book, Ojos llenos de sombra, won the Gran Angular Youth Literature Award (Mexican edition) in 2012. Since then, she has written and published several novels, a book of short stories, a book of essays and, in collaboration with writer Alberto Chimal, a writing manual entitled Cómo escribir tu propia historia.
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