2012-10-19 04:00:49 Halloween taught me the virtue of suffering for one’s art. Right. That sounds insufferably pretentious. That’s because it is. But there is a grain of pragmatic truth I’d like to try to tease out of that statement, if…
2012-10-18 04:00:35As I’m sure all of my fellow HWA members can claim, Halloween is my favorite holiday. Horror movies on every channel, pumpkin seeds roasting in the oven, slutty cats and nurses trolling the street galore, and those are my…
2012-10-17 04:00:36Derrick Hussey and Hippocampus Press received the 2011 HWA Specialty Press of the Year Award. 1. How would you describe Hippocampus Press? We are a small press specializing in the works of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and their…
2012-10-16 06:00:33Halloween can be a galvanizing time of year for some. People who don’t go to church except maybe on Christmas and Easter suddenly RISE UP! against the blasphemous evil nature of the holiday. Others, who may be fairly apathetic…
2012-10-16 06:00:26 “We want to build a haunted attraction and we’d like you to write a back story for it.” An origin story for a spook house? What a novel idea! More of a short story idea, really, but still…
2012-10-15 06:00:47 For many years, I dreamed of having a daughter, but no daughter came. When Belle finally showed up, I couldn’t imagine anything better—except that she missed being born on Halloween by three days. I thought that would have…
2012-10-15 04:00:55Dr Paul D Stewart () is a zoologist and multi award-winning wildlife filmmaker. After reading the new Darwinian vampire novel Worth Their Weight in Blood, by Carole Jahme, Stewart emailed, intrigued to know more about Jahme’s biologically credible vampires. Subject: from Paul…
2012-10-14 04:00:25The leaves yellow up and the pumpkins sprout faces, the monster movie marathons begin and the spooky books get their own prominent section up front in the library, where they’ll quickly be supplanted by the Turkey Day and Christmas…
2012-10-13 04:00:35Linda Addison is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry for How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend. 1. How would you describe How to Recognize a Demon has Become Your…
2012-10-12 06:00:10 Growing up in Hastings, New Zealand, we never really got to enjoy Halloween. It existed—for me, anyway—as some kind of weird holiday I got to see on TV and in movies. Halloween was so far removed from my…
