When Darren Shan wrote the first draft of Lord Voss, the book that kicked off his Demonata series, he gruesomely beheaded the main character’s mother in a vicious demon attack. His editor didn’t like it and that’s when he learned that mothers are sacred in teen horror, kind of…
The scariest scene I’ve ever written was possibly chapter two of a book called Lord Loss, the first in my Demonata series. In it, a teenage boy wanders into his parents’ bedroom to find his mother, father and sister all ripped apart by demons. It’s vicious, heart-wrenching and visceral, and 10 years after it was first published, I still think it’s at the cutting edge of what is acceptable when writing for teenagers.
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