ONLINE Creating Atmosphere in Dark Fantasy and Horror
One-Day Workshop | Monday, May 5, 2025
5pm-8pm PT | 6pm-9pm MT | 7pm-10pm CT | 8pm-11pm ET | 9pm-12am AT
Instructor: Bryce Raffle
MEMBER PRICE: $60.00
NON-MEMBER PRICE: $80.00
This workshop will teach you how to master atmosphere in your dark fantasy and horror writing. We'll focus on crafting mood and tone to draw readers into haunting, suspenseful, or eerie worlds that linger long after the last page. From bleak landscapes and shadowy settings to creating tension through sensory details, you’ll discover how to build immersive environments that play with your reader's emotions. Learn how to set the stage for spine-chilling tales and transport your audience into the unsettling unknown.
This is an interactive online class using the Zoom web platform.
Bryce Raffle was the lead writer for Ironclad Games’ Sins of a Dark Age, an online multiplayer fantasy game, as well as writing for Mech Armada (Lioncode Games). His short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and literary magazines (Den of Antiquity, Southern Steam, Taught by Time; Myth Goes Punk, Hideous Progeny: Classic Horror Goes Punk, Selene Quarterly Magazine), and have won awards such as the Predators & Editors Readers’ Poll award for best steampunk short story in 2016. He was the editor of DeadSteam and DeadSteam II, and is the co-author of the children’s books The Littlest Dinosaur and The Littlest Dinosaur Finds A Home. He was a Scrivener panelist at the Creative Ink Festival in Vancouver alongside fellow Scrivener enthusiast Kelley Armstrong.
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