Horror writer with twitch - symbolic (6)
I believe the answer is:
poetic
'symbolic' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are adjectives. Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'horror writer with twitch' is the wordplay.
'horror writer' becomes 'poe' (I've seen this before).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'twitch' becomes 'tic' (tic is a kind of twitch).
'poe'+'tic'='POETIC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for poetic that I've seen before include "Lyrical like verse" , "rhythmical" , "One sort of licence" , "Relating to verse" , "Flowery" .)