2022-10-27 13:52:12As a child born to Cuban exiles in 1971, Halloween wasn’t a major holiday in our household for a while, since it wasn’t celebrated in Cuba. Once my parents recognized they were never going home to Havana, however, that…
2022-10-27 08:01:23To kick of the HWA Poetry Showcase readings we have a genuine New Yorker! Gordon Linzner will be reading his series of haiku “Triptych of Terror.” If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better…
2022-10-26 13:44:28No one celebrates Halloween better than the Halloween People, and while every Halloween has been special in some way or another, the most memorable one, for me, was in 2015. If you love horror, and if you’re reading this,…
2022-10-26 08:01:55by Angela Yuriko Smith Were it not for Peter Adam Salomon and the HWA Showcase series he started, I might not be still poeting today. Our community is particularly kind to dark poets. From founding National Dark Poetry Day…
2022-10-25 13:19:05One of my favorite parts of the Halloween season is watching horror films. Ever since I was a kid in the 80s scouring Fangoria magazine for October releases to find the newest spooky films and video tapes, I have…
2022-10-24 13:16:35As many folks in the United States prepare for upcoming Halloween celebrations by choosing costumes—for themselves or perhaps for their children to go trick-or-treating—it’s intriguing to think about how dressing up in costume relates to writing horror. What are…
2022-10-24 08:01:13by Angela Yuriko Smith Today I’d like to welcome Stephanie M. Wytovich to the HWA Poetry Blog with an interview about her own work and Writing Poetry in the Dark, just released from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Writing Poetry…
2022-10-23 22:20:45By Tom JoyceThe setting sun cast a blood-red glow on the assembly of horrors. Maniacal clowns. Cleaver-toting cannibals. Wrathful ghosts. All gathered in a field, waiting for their victims. Stakes high, as always. It wouldn’t be enough to send…
2022-10-23 14:01:12A lifelong “Halloween People” myself, I connect Halloween with libraries, and do so for several reasons. Each year I have the great pleasure of writing and directing a Halloween Haunt in my university library, working with the librarians and…
2022-10-22 14:07:03“The Children of the Night—what music they make!” Why hello there, Halloween people. Brian Asman here, author of the viral hit Man, Fuck This House and the upcoming Christmas horror comedy Return of the Living Elves. When I sat…