Everyone knows Dracula, The Shining, and The Exorcist, but horror is filled with hidden gems that deserve just as much attention.

If you want to write horror—whether psychological, supernatural, or slasher—you need to understand what makes the genre work.

rom Hannibal Lecter to my own creation of Bram Alder, fiction is full of cold-blooded, manipulative psychopaths who capture our imagination.