2024-10-17 07:13:54Halloween Haunts: What Ben Cooper Taught Me About Life By Den Shewman The things that made me: The famous Shock Theater package of Universal Studios monster movies, licensed cheap to local TV stations. Aurora’s monster kits, especially the…
2024-10-16 07:54:26Halloween Haunts: Cinnamon Sugar and Grave Dust: Musings of a Writer in San Diego’s Old Town By Kathryn Blanche “The oldest town in California,” touted the sign posted on the dust-coated message board of the El Campo Santo…
2024-10-15 07:48:46Halloween Haunts: Learning About Dark Poetry, and a Burning Haibun for Halloween By Stacie Herrington Hello, Halloween people! First off, I would like to thank HWA member and amazing poet Stephanie M. Wytovich along with all the contributors to…
2024-10-14 07:04:56Halloween Haunts: Have You Ever Shaken the Devil’s Hand on Halloween Night? By David Sandner Was it a Halloween night when Robert Johnson walked out to the crossroads to make a deal with the devil? I don’t know,…
2024-10-13 07:02:16Halloween Haunts: The Severed Hand By Michael Subjack Halloween has always been my favorite time of year, but there was an odd period between trick-or-treating as a child and enjoying more ambitious pursuits as an adult that found me…
2024-10-11 08:00:50 What inspired you to start writing? My short answer is reading. My longer answer is that I’d been a professional theater actor, which had more crossover with writing than I’d realized. When I stopped acting, I was…
2024-10-11 07:51:51Halloween Haunts: Eat, Drink, and Be Haunted by Paula Cappa What traditional Halloween supper do you conjure up on October 31? How about ghost-steaming penne pasta, murdered sliced-up sausage, and green spinach playing peek-a-BOO. At our house, this is…
2024-10-10 08:06:55Halloween Haunts: Obsession by Dean Cade Costumes and makeup effects have always been a part of Halloween for me. When I was a kid in the 70s, I would get one of the simple plastic outfits with a…
2024-10-10 08:00:21 What inspired you to start writing? To be honest, it was a group of alley cats. Even before I could write, I’d literally scribble and loopity-loop in a composition notebook about the cat families I saw outside…
2024-10-09 08:06:34 Halloween Haunts: Evoking Dread: A Balancing Act By Alexa Tanen I’ve always loved horror stories; the scarier, the better. But there have been so many examples of an idea I adore that’s given a not-so-scary execution. As…