2023-10-26 14:07:07Halloween Haunts: Our Love Story as Told by Halloween by Jessica Hobbs As my husband and I approach our anniversary of seventeen years together – an unusually long time for a pair of artists still in their 30s…
2023-10-25 14:07:53Halloween Haunts: The Ghost with the Ruby, Ruby Lips by Naching T. Kassa A few years ago, during Halloween Haunts, I shared one of my most favorite scary stories with you. It was, “The Ghost with One Bloody…
2023-10-24 14:07:06Halloween Haunts: Licensing on Halloween by Rosemary Thorne Children are not the only ones going door to door setting up dealings on Halloween. There are sorcerers too, knocking on the darkest gates of all realms to renew their…
2023-10-23 14:07:47Halloween Haunts: All The Treats! by Linda D. Addison Halloween has been one of my favorite holidays my whole life. As a child the idea of dressing up that one day and going house to house to collect…
2023-10-22 14:07:27Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Poem by Maxwell I Gold The Castle Ephialtes By: Maxwell I. Gold A stronghold built at the peak of my contemptuous thoughts; haunted delusions fused together like steel rods composed that most…
2023-10-21 14:07:15HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: INTERVIEW WITH A HORROR-LOVING CHILD by Eric J. Guignard and Devin Guignard I sat down to write this blog post, and—as I do before any writing—I read a bit on the subject matter, what others before…
2023-10-21 08:00:09 By Tom Joyce While working as a ghost tour guide in Edinburgh, Jan-Andrew Henderson found a spot with all the makings of a real-life horror story – an eerie graveyard, a long-buried (literally) human tragedy on a grand…
2023-10-20 15:23:14 Submissions will open next month for the newest HWA members-only anthology! SCARING AND DARING ADVENTURES will be an anthology of original fiction stories that draw from the rich tradition of classic works of children’s literature and puts a…
2023-10-20 14:07:02Halloween Haunts: Thing That Make You Go “Hmmm…” by L. Marie Wood We speak of the dead in past tense and positives. We dress for them in ceremony and as protection. We offer them food, plant trees in their…
2023-10-19 14:07:26Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Wedding in the Cemetery by Denise Dumars A remembrance of Meg (Susan) Groeling, 1949-2023 Last October I officiated a wedding between two horror writers: Ashley Dioses and K.A. Opperman. It had a Gothic…