2022-10-02 16:00:41 Dr. Greg McWhorter is a Latinx (half-Colombian) writer who resides in Southern California. Since the 1980s, he has written for newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and film. McWhorter has been a guest speaker at several universities, TV shows, film…
2022-10-02 13:46:51From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the local chapter of the Jaycees in my Virginia hometown put on an annual haunted castle event, set in a massive, abandoned warehouse in a nearby hamlet called Koehler (which could well have…
2022-10-01 16:00:49 Susan spent her childhood in South Texas, about ten miles from the U.S.-Mexican border. As a child, she spent the summers in Mexico with her grandparents and extended family. Inspired by Nancy Drew, Susan frequently created mysteries that…
2022-10-01 14:00:49On October 31, 2009 something magical happened. That was the day that my then-fiance Gregory Hug and I adopted the approximately three-year-old predominantly black tuxedo cat we would come to know as Bootsy Catlins from Oakland Animal Services. We…
2022-10-01 05:57:00Welcome, one and all, to the Halloween Haunts for 2022. 31 days of essays, stories, images and ideas that show why the Halloween People are the best people. Visit each day to hear from a wide variety of members…
2022-10-01 00:30:36The HWA has a rich tradition of dark poetry even before the late Peter Adam Salomon founded both the acclaimed Poetry Showcase series and National Dark Poetry Day, celebrated every year on October 7, the day Edgar Allan Poe died.…
2022-09-30 21:13:01 In the tradition of such sinister seductresses as Vampira and Elvira, Aurora Gorealis is a Baltimore-based horror host who weaves dark magic from a combination of campy movies, sassy attitude, and the occasional pun of dubious quality. Since…
2022-09-30 16:00:19 Juan Manuel Pérez, a Mexican-American poet of Indigenous descent and the Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas (2019-2020), is the author of numerous poetry books including Another Menudo Sunday (2007), O’ Dark Heaven: A Response to Suzette Haden…
2022-09-30 03:08:10 Trigger Warning: This article addresses mental health. Life Goes On The Way It Does — How Writing Is My Saviour By Claire Fitzpatrick “It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive…
2022-09-29 16:00:21 Robert Perez sleeps at the bottom of the ocean. Urban legend whispers that the writer can be summoned into your dreams if you read his work to a jack-o-lantern. You can find his poems and stories in the…