2014-10-04 06:00:35For horror writers, Halloween is the most anticipated holiday of the year. It’s not hard to imagine why: many dress up like their favorite monsters or villains, and it’s easier to find black lipstick in a department store. The…
2014-10-03 06:00:40As a writer with a strong leaning towards horror and dark fiction, it’s only natural that I’m a huge fan of Halloween. In fact, it’s my favorite holiday. The fact that you’re reading this means it’s probably one of…
2014-10-02 06:00:18 I suppose, in some ways, I had a somewhat deprived childhood. Oh, nothing serious, but when I grew up in the northern English town of Halifax, nothing really happened on Hallowe’en. There was no Trick or Treating and…
2014-10-01 06:00:58Around this time of year, an image of Halloween comes to my mind. It’s a Halloween that never quite occurred and likely never will. It lives in my imagination, defined by oblong shadows stretching beneath Bradburyesque October skies, cast…
2014-09-13 20:13:11My name is Jonathan and I write horror. I know, it sounds like the kind of thing you’d admit to at a meeting. Or maybe after taking an oath in court. Or, maybe something you’d tell a priest as…
2013-10-31 10:00:51To me, nothing says “Halloween” like a haunted house. And I grew up in one. No, this isn’t a joke or some tongue-in-cheek, cutesy little Halloween story to make you titter nervously and wave off what I’m about to…
2013-10-31 06:00:19I’m an Aussie so what would I know about Halloween, right? Right now in The Land Down Under it’s spring, going on summer. It’s hot, humid and the constant whir of the pedestal fan or air-conditioner is the only…
2013-10-30 10:00:24Like most of you, I have a lifetime of Halloween memories, starting in that magical bygone era when it was deemed safe for five-year-olds to wander the city streets without adult supervision, led perhaps by an “older and wiser”…
2013-10-30 06:00:05Halloween makes me restless. It’s a subtle thing, a bout of nervousness that I can’t seem to quell, a nostalgic remembering, a yearning even. It’s a restlessness tied inexplicably to half-remembered details of a time when the night was…
2013-10-29 10:00:14Mort Castle is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in an Anthology for Shadow Show (edited with Sam Weller) as well the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection…
