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…
2023-10-18 14:07:28Halloween Haunts: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Lara Frater I would like to take you back to a magical time. Before streaming and when few had cable. We only had 7 channels and the extras…
2023-10-17 14:07:33Halloween Haunts: When Taboo Becomes Tradition by Carrie Lee South When I tell non-horror people I write dark fiction, their response is often something like “Why? Don’t you want to think about something more positive?” But then autumn’s…
2023-10-16 14:07:52Halloween Haunts: The Facts in the Case of Edgar Allan Poe by Joseph Maddrey When I moved to Richmond, Virginia in 2021, after fifteen years in Los Angeles, I was disappointed about Halloween. Nobody celebrates Halloween like people…
2023-10-15 13:06:38Halloween Haunts: How a favorite holiday (Hint: It’s not Halloween) made me love spooky stories by Nikki Kallio When my collection of short fiction came out this year—an assemblage of sci-fi, speculative and gothic stories—a family member who read…
2023-10-14 13:06:38Halloween Haunts: Halloween on Blood Mountain By Jeffrey LeBlanc Golden and crimson leaves fall majestically from the ageless trees of Blood Mountain. As they drift along nearing the forest floor, I watch the wind wisp them up into swirls…
2023-10-13 13:06:21Halloween Haunts: Why Write Horror? by Megan Bledsoe My mom remembers sitting side-by-side with me in a vinyl green recliner back when I was two years old. She had her arm around me, was cuddling me close, when…
2023-10-12 13:06:30Halloween Haunts: Pangangululuwa by Victory Witherkeigh “Did you bring the crispy pata? It was your Tito’s favorite pork dish.” The woman sitting on the gravesite in front of me said. I turn my head, realizing that there’s a…
2023-10-11 13:06:17Halloween Haunts – HWA and Halloween-Inspired Horrorky by Paul Lonardo As a writer whose focus has always been prose, I had never even considered attempting writing in verse. The thought of composing a poem had always been intimidating to…
