HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: ONE HUNDRED HOURS OF ROTTING SOLITUDE Rosemary Thorne It is thus, by the transformation of the body, that I have learned to become spirit. Zosimos ONE She woke up to light and felt part of the…
Hello Halloween People: Welcome to Halloween Haunts 2026! 31 Days of posts from horror writers about Halloween, spooky season, scary things, horror, and their latest work. It is a celebration of the shortening of the day, the nostalgia of childhood…
2025-11-01 13:58:00Halloween Haunts Postscript: 364 Days to Go Until Halloween By Kevin Wetmore, Halloween Haunts Curator Chicagoland artist, actor and poet Tony Fitzpatrick, who sadly passed away on October 11 of this year, once said, “Few memories evoke as…
2025-10-31 23:51:40Halloween Haunts: Halloween People Forever & FTW!by Angela Yuriko Smith I’ve always loved the name Halloween People, the title Kevin Wetmore’s wife gave us a few years ago. It somehow fits better than any academic label or literary genre ever…
2025-10-31 13:15:47Halloween Haunts: HALLOWEEN, MY PAL MERV, AND THE SHADOW BEHIND THE WHEELBy Cullen Bunn Damn it, Merv. You nearly got us all killed. On Halloween night, 1980. As ya do. Back in those days, my friend Vardell threw…
2025-10-30 14:12:02Halloween Haunts: A Pre-Halloween Tradition Thankfully Extinct: Moving Night By Ray Van Horn, Jr. Commonly, it was known as Mischief Night. Detroit hellraisers called it Devil’s Night. In Michigan, New York and the Dakotas, it was referred to…
2025-10-29 14:09:49Halloween Haunts: Celebrating Halloween when “Every Day is Halloween” By Raven Belasco I’m not just a goth girl, I’m a vampire author. This means that by two “lifestyle choices” I’ve made, the lyrics to “Every Day is Halloween”—that…
2025-10-28 23:03:33Halloween Haunts: From Trick or Treater to being THAT HOUSE for Trick or Treaters, a Horror Author’s Growth Arc By Brooklyn Ann Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Spooky decorations, dressing up as anything you wanted to…
2025-10-28 13:41:00Halloween Haunts: A DREAM OF VIOLENCE & BLOOD Rosemary Thorne The first night Lucy slept in the independent town of Cazalia, (Toledo, Spain), she dreamt of a blue bird. Cazalia, my birthplace, is seldom found on maps; its ancient…
2025-10-27 23:00:55HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: KINDNESS ABOVE ALL By Naching T. Kassa Just before my mother passed in June of 1998, she asked me what I wanted to do with my life. At the time, I didn’t understand the importance of…
