In what ways can setting be used to establish the sub-genre of psychological horror in a Post-Apocalyptic novel?
The culmination of familiarity destroyed, setting as character and isolation establishes not a horror that you can see, taste or touch but one that you think you can smell or hear or feel on the back of your neck – the sixth sense ‘that haunts our lives and our literature’ as Sol Stein explains it in Solutions for Writers (1998). Continue Reading