Each year 31 Days of Horror grows in readership. While some of you are here all year long, even when I am sporadic in posting, each year I get many new people joining in on the spooky blog-a-thon fun.
First things first, if you have never encountered 31 Days of Horror before well, I have been doing this event since 2011. That means there are over 300 posts using the 31 Days of Horror tag.
[And as I mentioned yesterday, it all began inauspiciously with this post. Nothing special, just a basic post about the appeal of Horror, but 10 years of content started with one post. Very humbling. ]
The entire idea of 31 Days of Horror, began as a way to help library workers during the time of year when they need the most help with Horror. However, I did not want this series to become a re-blogging list of lists either.
From that desire to give you something original and useful was born a concurrent series entitled Why I Love Horror. In this series, that runs mostly, but not only, during October, I reach out to people in the Horror world and invite them to contribute essays written for you-- the general library worker. These invited people are told to share why they love horror as a creator and fan in 1500 words or less.
My goal with this series to to expose you to people you should know about AND give you even more context for appeal. I can give you all the examples in the world of why people enjoy feeling scared when they read, but until you hear from actual fans, fans who also create Horror, it is hard to understand, especially for the vast majority of you who don't enjoy Horror for yourselves.
Over the years I have had many people contribute to the Why I Love Horror series from up and comers [some of whom have gone on to become big names] to firmly established authors to folks who love horror in the library world.
You can click here to see them all. "Why I Love Horror" is also a searchable tag any time, just like 31 Days of Horror.
"Why I Love Horror" is an excellent resource to help you help readers, and it is Horror RA resource you cannot find anywhere else. However, it is not the only way you can use this blog as a resource now and all year long.
But this blog is not just about my October content. It stands as a resource on Horror, not only to offer you a free update to my book, but also as the most important resource for working with Horror readers in libraries all year long.
I have more than tags for you to use to access content. If you look in the right gutter of the blog, under the cover of my book, is a list of pages you can find on here. That list is on EVERY page, so you don't have to worry about a huge link tree to find them. Access is easy, intuitive, and FREE.The pages with their direct links are:
- Summer Scares Resources and FAQ
- Third Edition Bonus Content: More Subgenre Annotations
- Horror Resources
- Best Independent Horror Publishers for Libraries
- Horror Awards
- Archive of Becky's Lists Articles and Presentations
- Summer Scares Archive [direct link but it is also on the FAQ page linked above]
- Horror Reviews Index
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