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The zombie keeps the score

January 01, 2022 by Varya Clark in Books, MV Clark, The Splits, Zombies, Writing, Psychology

Reading The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk, I realised I might finally have found a way of explaining what The Splits is about.

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January 01, 2022 /Varya Clark
The Body Keeps the Score, zombies, zombie, literary horror, literary zombies, Bessel Van der Kolk, trauma, PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Complex Trauma, Developmental Trauma, Attachment theory, John Bowlby, attachment trauma, evolution of the zombie, meaning of the zombie trope, mind-body relationship
Books, MV Clark, The Splits, Zombies, Writing, Psychology

On Being a Clive Barker Virgin

February 20, 2018 by Varya Clark in Books

If loving horror is an orientation, I’ve only just come out of the closet…

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February 20, 2018 /Varya Clark
Clive Barker, horror fans, The Hellbound Heart, The Forbidden, Books of Blood, classic horror, horror fiction, literary horror, Candyman, Hellraiser
Books

Dead Corpse by Nuzo Onoh

January 02, 2018 by Varya Clark in Books

One hell of a story, about three generations of medicine-women who battle with the evil in gods, men and in themselves to find happiness.

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January 02, 2018 /Varya Clark
African horror, Dead Corpse, Nuzo Onoh, Biafra
Books

The Haunting of Hill House

December 19, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

It was as if Shirley Jackson's classic novel had been haunting me from the future…

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December 19, 2017 /Varya Clark
Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, Stephen King, Eleanor, Carrie, #amwriting, horror, haunted house
Books

Maynard's House by Herman Raucher

December 15, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

A beautifully-written haunted house story which plumbs incredible depths of creepiness.

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December 15, 2017 /Varya Clark
Maynard's House, haunted house, Herman Raucher
Books

Northern gothic - The Loney

November 05, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

I've just finished The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley, a gothic novel about religion dashing itself to pieces on the implacable landscape of the North of England.

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November 05, 2017 /Varya Clark
The Loney, gothic, gothic horror, gothic novel, North of England
Books

Scary mountains - Thin Air by Michelle Paver

October 15, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

I am a BIG fan of Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. Not much frightens me but even years after reading it, the central image still gets me in the viscera.

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October 15, 2017 /Varya Clark
Thin Air, Michelle Paver, ghosts, mountains, Dyatlov Pass Incident, horror, horror fiction
Books

Zombies & fine writing - Colson Whitehead's Zone One

October 09, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books

When I first set out to write a zombie novel I decided not to read any to avoid accidentally copying them. The exception was Colson Whitehead's Zone One

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October 09, 2017 /Varya Clark
zombie, zombies, zombie novel review, Colson Whitehead, literary zombies, literary horror, horror fiction
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Horror writing - it lives!

October 04, 2017 by Varya Clark in Books, MV Clark

I am MV Clark, and I'm about to join the maniacally rammed but seethingly alive world of horror writing with my novel The Splits. I hope there's room for one more.

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October 04, 2017 /Varya Clark
Horror, Zombie, Novel
Books, MV Clark