2025-10-27 13:35:55Halloween Haunts: Three Generations of Halloween and Horror Love By Arin Ruhl A love of horror is my inheritance on my mother’s side, and Halloween is a family extravaganza. We own more Halloween than Christmas decorations, and perhaps…
2025-10-26 23:26:25 Halloween Haunts: How Scary Movies Went Mainstream, and How They Got Sutured to Halloween By Stacie Herrington Halloween and horror movies go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But it wasn’t always that way. Reese’s commercial (1986) Once…
2025-10-26 13:32:00Halloween Haunts: When Dreams Turn Prophetic: What My Nightmares Taught Me By KC Grifant Throughout my life, my dreams have been vivid, inspiring and, even fairly recently, borderline prophetic. Dreams becomes more culturally significant during the Halloween season.…
2025-10-25 23:28:03Halloween Haunts: DON’T SELL SHORT HORROR STORIES SHORT by Paul Lonardo For me, short stories are a lot like appetizers. They are bite-size, delicious and fulfilling. You can even make a meal out of them. Have you ever…
2025-10-25 13:23:25Halloween Haunts: A Modest Defense of “Trick or Treating”by Darius Jones By now, my Fellow Americans, I’m certain that many of you are aware of a fast-moving pestilence sweeping the land. A corrupting tendency, most un-American, among many of…
2025-10-24 23:07:32Halloween Haunts: SPIDER SEASON By Evan Baughfman Recently, I picked Arachnophobia for our Family Movie Night, and my kids (over)reacted as if I’d told them we’d be bobbing for egg sacs inside a squirming tub of tarantulas. They…
2025-10-24 14:03:11Halloween Haunts: Married to Horror: Perspectives of a Collaborating Couple By Stephen H. Provost Writers often approach horror from one of two perspectives: Either they’re writers who discover horror, or they’re horror lovers who find an outlet in…
2025-10-23 13:51:14Halloween Haunts: In Adolescent Clouds of Gloom By Sumiko Saulson 16-year-old Sumiko Saulson standing on the lanai of their apartment at Atkinson Plaza in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1984. Photo taken by their father, Robert Saulson. I landed at the…
2025-10-22 22:49:41Halloween Haunts: This Haunted House Will Save You By Henry Corrigan Everything we do, tends to have a purpose behind it. We humans might be weird, but we don’t really do random. That’s because randomness is risky. It…
2025-10-22 13:42:55Halloween Haunts: An Australian Gothic Haunt… Leanbh Pearson I’m an Australian horror author which means our celebrations for Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos occur in Fall in northern hemisphere. But for us Aussies and Kiwis the…
