2017-10-10 06:00:43 They say you never really believe in ghosts until you’ve encountered one. Two Halloweens ago I was working in Vail, Colorado at a hotel. I worked graveyard shift. October tended to be a dead month. There was very…
2017-10-09 06:00:12As news of Hurricane Sandy grew in the days leading up to Halloween, 2012, those of us who love Halloween were torn. More and more, it seemed like New York was going to take a major hit. It couldn’t…
2017-10-08 06:00:24 Traditional or normal are words that I would not use in descriptions of my family. Examples of when we are not normal include a certain family member who will watch Christmas movies eleven months out of the year…
2017-10-07 06:00:42 Halloween is the best season for crafts! It’s also the best season for horror. AND the best season for books. So what better than making your own spooky book craft? I found the perfect combination in these…
2017-10-06 06:00:48 “The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over…”~ Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree This is one of those sentences I wish I’d written. It says it all, so effortlessly and completely. We know…
2017-10-05 06:00:04 Kids can be monsters. It’s an adage we hear all too often, the cry of desperate, sleep-deprived parents run ragged by their ‘little darlings’. As observers, we tend to sit in two camps: those who have been there,…
2017-10-04 06:00:54 The Halloween season is the time of the year when the rest of the world accepts us. I mean that in two different ways. Growing up, my mom was not only a super hero single mother raising three…
2017-10-03 06:00:45 HWA’s next anthology, the Halloween-themed Haunted Nights, debuts on October 3rd. Including sixteen brand new stories about every horror writer’s favorite holiday, the anthology – published by Anchor Books and Blumhouse Books – recently received a starred review…
2017-10-02 18:55:45An Intimate interview with Marge Simon, Mary Turzillo and Weasel Press about their new book Satan’s Sweethearts. by David E. Cowen. Author of The Madness of Empty Spaces (Weasel Press 2014) and The Seven Yards of Sorrow (Weasel Press…
2017-10-02 06:00:39 Halloween, of course, evokes all sorts of childhood memories, including – in my case – my very first haunted house at the age of six, which was in an abandoned Victorian mansion in Rochester in the late 1960s.…