HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: A Tribute To Shocktober by Michael Subjack “Shocktober…on New York’s Movie Station!” Nothing signaled the arrival of the Halloween season for me more than those immortal words. These days, Spirit Halloween stores act as the unofficial start…
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: Unsolved and Endless ~ Or How My Body and My Bicycle Became Cursed by Sumiko Saulson In horror, death is dust and rot, but ancestor spirits live and breathe, a part of nature. Our DNA, the building…
Halloween Haunts: The Carnival by Sarah Faxon As a child, I would count down the days until the Bay Park Elementary School Halloween Carnival. Christmas aside, the Saturday before Halloween was the most magical day of the year. Over…
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: The Beauty of Blood by M. Brandon Robbins Blood is a universally revered symbol, representing life (when in the body) and death (when outside of the body) as well as passion and anger. Localized increased blood pressure…
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: An Excerpt from the Novel Servant by Patrick R. Field Gladys greets me in her usual loud, delightful soprano shrill, “Hello, Mitch! Happy Samhain!” “What is Sahween?” I ask. “Samhain is the original name for October thirty-first…
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: There Was a Hand in the Darkness by Sharon Wagner “There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.” ~ Neil Gaiman My hand grazed the doorframe, sliding over the smooth stubble of…
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: How to Kill a Hip-Thrusting Frankenstein by Suzanne Mattaboni I realize that pitchforks and torches are the traditional method for ousting the Frankenstein monster. Not at my house. We’ve always been a Halloween family. When my kids…
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: Coming of Age in Costume by R. Ruhl The autumn season is a time for reflecting on change and the connections between the past and present. I can trace a distinct narrative thread through my own life…
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: Punk Rock Cemetery by Dean Cade When I was a wayward teenager in 1986, my best friend, Sean, and I discovered a cemetery. I was traversing two worlds at the time, suburbia and the streets. We’d become…
HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: Homemade Cemetery Oracle Cards By Heddy Johannesen Greetings darklings: Today’s post is about my homemade cemetery oracle cards. I volunteered for the Horror Writers Association by taking photos in cemeteries in Halifax where I live. I sent…
