{"id":18852,"date":"2024-05-27T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/?p=18852"},"modified":"2024-05-16T22:18:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T02:18:54","slug":"dark-pathways-headless-men-estranged-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/dark-pathways-headless-men-estranged-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Pathways: Of Headless Men and Estranged Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16944\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/dark-pathways-a-ghostly-reckoning\/darkpathways_banner\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/darkpathways_banner.jpg?fit=830%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"830,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"darkpathways_banner\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/darkpathways_banner.jpg?fit=830%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16944\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/darkpathways_banner.jpg?resize=830%2C120&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dark Pathways\" width=\"830\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/darkpathways_banner.jpg?w=830&amp;ssl=1 830w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/darkpathways_banner.jpg?resize=350%2C51&amp;ssl=1 350w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/darkpathways_banner.jpg?resize=768%2C111&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18853\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/dark-pathways-headless-men-estranged-brothers\/headless-men\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/headless-men.jpg?fit=337%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"337,500\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"headless-men\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/headless-men.jpg?fit=337%2C500&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-18853\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/headless-men.jpg?resize=337%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cover of In the Valley of the Headless Men\" width=\"337\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/headless-men.jpg?w=337&amp;ssl=1 337w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cemeterydance.com\/extras\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/headless-men.jpg?resize=236%2C350&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 85vw, 337px\" \/>If you haven\u2019t already, make sure you put <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In The Valley of Headless Men<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by L.P. Hernandez on your \u201cto-read\u201d list. It\u2019s a tight, well-paced novella that hits right in the gut. Here\u2019s the blurb:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nahanni National Park is one of the last truly wild places on earth. Accessible only by plane, and only when the weather cooperates, it&#8217;s the perfect place for estranged brothers Joseph and Oscar to have an adventure following the death of their mother. Gillian, Joseph&#8217;s first love, invites herself along in the spirit of friendship. The park is much more than beautiful. It&#8217;s mysterious, with legends of giants and hidden, prehistoric animals. And among its few visitors, an outsized number of violent deaths inspire its second, more seductive name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to share with you what I mean about a story that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">hits right in the gut<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. In the following passage, the narrator of the story is talking about childhood with his half-brother, Oscar. Oscar was physically abused by his father at a young age. Here\u2019s what we get from the narrator:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oscar would go quiet as a weekend with his dad approached, staring at the front door from the living room for twenty, thirty straight minutes. I asked him about it later, after his dad stopped coming around. He said if he stared at the door long and hard enough, his mind would play tricks on him. The black line between the door and the frame would fade. The door would become a wall, one his dad could not pass through. It didn\u2019t work while we were little, but he kept trying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God, I love this passage. It tells us so much about Oscar, and at the same time tells us so much about the brothers\u2019 relationship. But the relationship is more complicated than we initially think, as the narrator lets us in on his thoughts just a few moments later:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He stood, unsheathed the knife, and began to walk toward the trees. A curious thought bloomed. Oscar was going to kill Gillian. Why would I think that about my own brother? He was not a violent man. Not to my knowledge. Still, I found myself reaching for a fist-sized rock on the sand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After this, things start to get weird in the Valley. You believe all of it because the characters are so well-developed, and I think deep down you\u2019re going to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">want<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Valley to be weird and magical (that\u2019s why we read horror!). But the way the characters <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">react<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the changing situation is what I want to focus on, because Hernandez never loses sight of the brothers\u2019 relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Dark Pathway: The Siblings<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Family dynamics are a well of inspiration for writers. It doesn\u2019t have to be your own, either! You know enough families &#8212; friends, extended, neighbors &#8212; to get a sense of how weird and unique each one is. Great writers utilize family dynamics to tell the kind of story that just doesn\u2019t work with a group of friends, or a pair of lovers, or two colleagues. It\u2019s why so many horror movies fall flat: they put some friends together and pray for some kind of character development to take place before they start dying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can do better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step one: Create two characters.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They need to be siblings. Close relations will work better for this so you can mine the lifespan of the siblings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step two: Give them <\/b><b><i>tension<\/i><\/b><b>.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Though they may love each other, there\u2019s a history of sour memories. Identify those for each of the siblings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step three: Throw them in a forest. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The siblings went camping at their father\u2019s favorite spot. They\u2019re going to scatter his ashes, but something weird is happening in the forest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Step four: Write the siblings\u2019 reaction.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Let the simmering tensions between them bubble to the surface as they confront the weirdness. Maybe it\u2019s just a scene, or maybe it\u2019s a whole story. You decide! <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But don\u2019t let them get out of that forest until they\u2019ve confronted those deeper issues<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Ken Brosky is the author of\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beyond-Ken-Brosky-ebook\/dp\/B09HYTNCL8\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=19DJPXZDGB8XA&amp;keywords=ken+brosky+the+beyond&amp;qid=1649040148&amp;sprefix=ken+brosky%2Caps%2C257&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beyond-Ken-Brosky-ebook\/dp\/B09HYTNCL8\/ref%3Dsr_1_1?crid%3D19DJPXZDGB8XA%26keywords%3Dken%2Bbrosky%2Bthe%2Bbeyond%26qid%3D1649040148%26sprefix%3Dken%2Bbrosky%252Caps%252C257%26sr%3D8-1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1649193860186000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3lEie6gD2dgj9-S5syt1mK\">The Beyond<\/a><\/strong><em><strong>, a horror novel available through Timber Ghost Press. His work has been published in\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Grotesque<\/strong><em><strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><strong>Alfred Hitchcock\u2019s Mystery Magazine<\/strong><em><strong>, among others. He\u2019s currently working on a screenplay and a new novel.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven\u2019t already, make sure you put In The Valley of Headless Men by L.P. Hernandez on your \u201cto-read\u201d list. It\u2019s a tight, well-paced novella that hits right in the gut. Here\u2019s the blurb: Nahanni National Park is one of the last truly wild places on earth. 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