2013-10-11 10:00:20October 31st – Halloween night: A lonely drifter wanders on a dark sandy road through the scrubby New Jersey Pine Barrens. Clouds mask the full October moon. A screech is heard from a stand of pine. Running footsteps cut…
2013-10-10 14:00:41Lucy Snyder is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for her story “Magdala Amygdala.” 1. How would you describe “Magdala Amygdala”?I’d describe it as a soft apocalypse story. I used it to…
2013-10-10 10:00:27I read pretty much every genre with the exception of Romance and Westerns. Nothing against them, just not my cup of tea. Although there are many things I find enjoyable about other genres, especially fantasy and science fiction, which…
2013-10-10 03:08:23By JG Faherty Read Part 1 Last month, actress and author Amber Benson talked to us about YA horror, literacy, her love of gory books and movies, and her writing process. This month we hit on those topics some…
2013-10-10 03:00:15by JG Faherty, for the Horror Writers Association Newsletter Read Part 1 Last month metal drummer extraordinaire and horror fanatic Richard Christy and I spoke about his love of horror movies and novels, his metal band Charred Walls of…
2013-10-09 10:00:48Enter the Crypt of Forgotten Screamers! WwwwAAaaaRRrrrrGGgghhHHHh!!!!! It’s Halloween time again and that means you must have something appropriate spinning on the turntable, ‘natch. I don’t know about you, but I like to get my holiday discs out for…
2013-10-08 10:00:08Gene O’Neill is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction for his book The Blue Heron. 1. How would you describe The Blue Heron? The Blue Heron is a dark thriller, with perhaps…
2013-10-07 10:00:04Halloween has always held a special place in my heart, even before I ever thought about becoming a horror and science fiction writer. While there is never one single reason a person can trace to a love of all…
2013-10-07 10:00:00Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Growing up, I relished Halloween’s approach even more than Christmas. Santa had nothing on Halloween with Jack o‘Lanterns, costumes and candy… Every year the crisp October air prompted my father to take…
2013-10-06 10:00:18One of my most vivid childhood memories was of a haunted house in the neighborhood when I was young. It was the artificial variety. The guys who ran it where most likely high school students—certainly way older than me…