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Sweet dreams! Should your middle grade horror have a happy ending?

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

31/01/2020

I’m often asked whether children’s horror novels should end on a cheerful note with the threat fully defused, giving young readers the closure they need to drift off happily to…

How to write a creepy graveyard in middle grade or YA

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By: Siobhan O'Brien Holmes

15/01/2020

Hi there, horror fans! Not much beats the eerie atmosphere of an empty cemetery in the middle of the night, am I right? They’re dark and shadowy, spookily silent and…