2024-10-09 08:06:34 Halloween Haunts: Evoking Dread: A Balancing Act By Alexa Tanen I’ve always loved horror stories; the scarier, the better. But there have been so many examples of an idea I adore that’s given a not-so-scary execution. As…
2024-10-09 08:00:24 What inspired you to start writing? I was inspired to start writing because of the ghost stories I would hear as a kid, in particular, La Llorona; they sparked my imagination. I made up worlds in my…
2024-10-08 08:04:40Halloween Haunts: Arachnid Teachers By Heddy Johannesen I recall a night many years ago when I passed by a cemetery as I was walking home. Something was odd about the cemetery. Cemeteries are naturally spooky places. The streetlights…
2024-10-08 08:00:45 What inspired you to start writing? For a long time, I wanted to be a comic book writer I wrote various stories in the comic book medium. Unfortunately, the search for an artist/collaborator was a difficult task.…
2024-10-07 08:01:52Halloween Haunts: Sparkles: A Haunted House Story by Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar When I imagine a haunted house, my mind conjures up broken windows, sagging floorboards, and cracked ceilings. I picture cobwebs in the corners and old-fashioned, dust-covered furniture. Rodents…
2024-10-07 08:00:14 What inspired you to start writing? It was a combination of two things: reading, and my day job. After I started working full-time, I developed the terrible habit of not reading anything longer than a magazine article.…
2024-10-06 08:00:59 What inspired you to start writing? I’ve always been a voracious reader, and I dabbled a bit in high school with a creative writing class, but I never really considered tackling anything substantial until I went through…
2024-10-06 07:59:53Halloween Haunts: Writing Horror For Comic Books By Jonathan Hedrick Long before the now defunct Comic Code Authority was slapping their seal on funny books left and right, the medium was no stranger to the macabre story telling of…
2024-10-06 07:59:36Halloween Haunts: “Halloween in the Hudson River Valley”by Katherine Kerestman www.CreepyCatLair.com An excerpt from Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press, 2020) Halloween in the Hudson Valley – where the…
2024-10-06 02:38:39Being invited to Marge Simon’s Blood & Spades column in the monthly newsletter is, for many of us, a goal to aspire to. I’ve found many of the poets I love in her column and feel privileged to have…
