Over at the British Fantasy Society's blog, I talk about the trope of Evil Children in this month's "Subgenre Deep Dive"! If you're a Gen Xer like me, you remember how scary Damien from The Omen was (as if the bullies in school weren't bad enough!), but just think how terrifying that was for the adults in the room. Now we have enough issues with wretched adults (and too many videos of reprehensible behavior on airplanes!), but scary, possessed kids are a bit more awful now that we are the adults and supposed to be able to raise them better.
This was a LOT of fun to write and is an extended and tweaked version of the "Evil Children" section of the new Volume 2 of Spec Fic for Newbies. So take a look at the post here, and if you dig it you can get 29 more subgenres and major tropes--complete with activities for each to get you writing--into your eyeballs via our dedicated linktree, where a bundle of Volumes 1 and 2 is still being offered by publisher Luna Press at a special price!
*image is a still from Pet Sematary (2019) taken from IMDb
This was a LOT of fun to write and is an extended and tweaked version of the "Evil Children" section of the new Volume 2 of Spec Fic for Newbies. So take a look at the post here, and if you dig it you can get 29 more subgenres and major tropes--complete with activities for each to get you writing--into your eyeballs via our dedicated linktree, where a bundle of Volumes 1 and 2 is still being offered by publisher Luna Press at a special price!
*image is a still from Pet Sematary (2019) taken from IMDb
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