Religious Horror

Anyone writing anything that falls into this category?

I think that's what I'll end up doing this year... that's what happens when existential fear wins out eh?!

I'm writing about a guy who ends getting his faith affirmed by encountering some demons... or so he thinks!

How about you?

No - but you remind me of "The Monk", have you read it?

It's verbose but brilliant.

Some Enochian angels come into my story as villains. And those guys are friggin' terrifying.

Never heard of The Monk?

He sat on the elephant's trunk.

I write religious horror - but most of it is generated by abusive church systems and cults.

I've written religious horror before. It's interesting. I encourage you to look into Ted Decker. He's a Christian writer that writes some of the scariest stuff I've ever read. Not quite Stephen King Scary. But up there on the freaky scale.

I have an writer acquaintance who has written Christian horror as good as anything I've read. The problem was that it was too scary for me - LOL!

I wrote one last year, and am editing it now (still) that is a pretty religious horror.

In short, it was about a man in Victorian London who became possessed by a demon and during, he did a lot of terrible things, including killing the fiance to the girl he loved. The demon used him to get at the girl and her friends because one of them had a key necessary to 'open the gates of Hell unto the world'. It involved a lot of horror, in the attacks, the memories, and the dreams. And at one point, the Parish Priest comes face to face with the demon.

Writing it, I was always terrified.
And since I'm going to see Paranormal Activity 3 this weekend, I bet I won't touch the story for weeks. lol

I've not written about this, but I would suggest reading Frank. E. Peretti's work. He's classified as "Christian Suspense," which is similar, but his novels are a bit darker than most inspirational fiction. "This Present Darkness" and "Piercing the Darkness" are two of his that you might want to spend some time with. :)

Me! Me! I am! My book deals primarily with angels and demons and such but involves a possessed serial killer (or semi-possessed, I haven't quite worked it out yet) and some Lovecraftian elements with the angels and demons (because Lovecraft = awesome). Also a lot of nightmares. And yeah.

This was one of the first of his books that I read and it really scared the pants off me! Its about a deaf mute girl, who suddenly starts talking, saying she has been cured by a vision of the Virgin Mary in a field adjoining the local church. The papers get hold of it and it snowballs, by the public, the papers, the church, local businesses. It eventually turns out to not be visions of the Virgin Mary curing this girl and several others, but something a lot more malevolent.

So a Christian vampire novel would qualify, right?

I write suspense (badly) more than horror, but I love to read both. Have you read The Bride Collector by Ted Dekker? That one freaked me OUT.

I'm not sure what I'm writing yet - I know my MC is plagued by demons, and has his life frequently interrupted by being pulled into tragic and terrifying alternate dimensions, which is traumatizing to him... but neither he nor I, yet, know if they're real, or he's just really mentally ill. D: Which is bad, because I'm supposed to be writing his story soon!

I'm writing a religious horror! =) Or supernatural suspense or Christian sci-fi or whatever you want to call it. Lol. My MC is dating an alcoholic. Substance abuse is one way to become demon obsessed, so her boyfriend brings a demon into their apartment. She begins sensing and eventually seeing the demon, which makes her turn a big corner spiritually. I can't wait to write the second half of my novel now. Yay!

I don't know... But it can't bode well that Enochian angels (and their sons the Nephilim) are technically the good guys in my stories.