Welcome - Please read this first!

Hi all,

Welcome to the Horror & Supernatural Fiction forum for 2011. I'm Lottie, one of the mods who'll be looking after this forum this year. A couple of things to note:

1. Please keep your posts on topic. We will move threads if they are deemed to be inappropriate, not just because they clutter up the forum for those who are looking for specifically H&S related subjects, but also because you're more likely to get a relevant reply if your post is in the correct place. If you come back to the forum and discover that your thread has disappeared, please check your nanomail inbox as we will always PM you to tell you where your post has been moved to and why.

2. This forum has three mods but we can't guarantee to be here all the time, we're MLs and have regions to look after, as well as having jobs and lives etc.. If you see a thread which is obviously inappropriate for the forum, particularly if it is spam of any kind, please hit the 'report' button and let us know about it. If enough people do this, it will actually disappear from the forum automatically without us having to do anything further, so it's always a helpful thing to do and only takes a couple of seconds.

3. Please give your post a relevant subject heading. Something like 'Ideas to Kill a Demon' is much better than 'Help!' and is more likely to be answered.

4. This forum can get very, very busy and threads can disappear off the front page within a few hours during peak times. Please check to make sure that your topic doesn't already have a thread before posting another one, as you're more likely to get an answer if people don't have to write the same reply for the fourth time - everyone's going to be busy writing other things after all. :-)

Thanks for reading, and hope you have a great time with us this year. :-)

Lottie

Moderator - Historical Fiction Forum

I am writing a Gothic short story and I am in need of a plot! and help with the basic genre.