Welcome to the showcase of new releases for 2026! Writers: sign into the members-only area to submit upcoming books using the link on the Promote Yourself page. If your book’s release date has passed, it may not be included. If…
2025-12-24 20:00:35By Tom Joyce — Mobsters have a long history with horror. No, this is not an exposé. Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Laird Barron have written about them. They’ve prowled the shadowy underworlds of John Constantine and Felix Castor,…
2025-12-24 18:45:06 The HWA Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the following recipients for this year’s scholarship selections. The committee would like to thank those who applied and the volunteers who reviewed the many applications we received. Congratulations to…
2025-11-18 21:32:29Reviewed by Sage Moon … Little White Flowers by Amber Hathaway is one of those rare horror novels that gets mental illness and mental health concerns strikingly right. This is certainly due to the author’s experience living with some…
2025-11-13 17:04:54The Seer’s Table, NOVEMBER 2025 Linda D. Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee You can see any of The Seers’ Table posts since inception (March 2016) by going to the HWA main page and selecting the…
2025-11-11 21:20:49By Tom Joyce — Quan Barry’s Black literary horror novel, “The Unveiling,” is set in a subgenre where a punishing landscape can drive the unwary to madness. According to Quan, that also serves as an apt description of the…
2025-11-01 13:58:00Halloween Haunts Postscript: 364 Days to Go Until Halloween By Kevin Wetmore, Halloween Haunts Curator Chicagoland artist, actor and poet Tony Fitzpatrick, who sadly passed away on October 11 of this year, once said, “Few memories evoke as…
2025-10-31 23:51:40Halloween Haunts: Halloween People Forever & FTW!by Angela Yuriko Smith I’ve always loved the name Halloween People, the title Kevin Wetmore’s wife gave us a few years ago. It somehow fits better than any academic label or literary genre ever…
2025-10-31 13:15:47Halloween Haunts: HALLOWEEN, MY PAL MERV, AND THE SHADOW BEHIND THE WHEELBy Cullen Bunn Damn it, Merv. You nearly got us all killed. On Halloween night, 1980. As ya do. Back in those days, my friend Vardell threw…
2025-10-30 14:12:02Halloween Haunts: A Pre-Halloween Tradition Thankfully Extinct: Moving Night By Ray Van Horn, Jr. Commonly, it was known as Mischief Night. Detroit hellraisers called it Devil’s Night. In Michigan, New York and the Dakotas, it was referred to…