2013-10-05 14:00:04Why do we do it? Why do folks like Mike Dellosso, Brian Keene, Elizabeth Massie, Kevin Lucia, me, and any number of other writers look at the dark side of the literature spectrum? Why write horror novels when there…
2013-10-05 10:00:29Fans of horror and dark fantasy love Halloween. There’s a reason people watch frightening films or walk through “haunted houses” to be terrorized by college students dressed as zombies: There is something incredibly exciting and entertaining about being scared.…
2013-10-04 14:00:48Every day when he comes home from preschool, my four-year-old son, Owen, proceeds to creep us out with his artistic creations. Here are some of my favorites (with appropriate captions): …
2013-10-04 10:00:38As with most authors of horror stories and ghost tales, one of my favorite times of the year is the Halloween season. My fondness for the spooky holiday stems back to early childhood, when my fellow elementary school students…
2013-10-03 23:05:48Author: David A. Riley David A. Riley began writing horror stories while still at school and had his first professional sale to Pan Books 1969, which was The Lurkers in the Abyss, published in the The Eleventh Pan Book…
2013-10-03 10:00:19L.L. Soares is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for Life Rage. 1. How would you describe Life Rage? Life Rage is, at its core, the story of psychologist who specializes…
2013-10-02 10:00:04There are a lot of wonderful reasons to use Halloween in fiction. It’s an extraordinarily rich holiday, offering a variety of experiences. For some, it’s about the autumn season, with the sights and smells and sensations that accompany longer…
2013-10-01 06:00:42October raises dark dreams of chill breezes and the aroma of dead leaves. Dreams of streets and houses, dead black in silhouette against sunset’s orange and indigo skies. Twilight dreams. Memories of things that never existed. Things we obsessed…
2013-10-01 04:17:54Author: Bruce Boston DARK ROADS: SELECTED LONG POEMS 1971-2012 Long_Synopsis: Considered one of the leading genre/speculative poets for more than a quarter century, Bruce Boston has received the Bram Stoker Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Asimovâ s Readers Award,…
2013-09-30 03:04:12Author: James Chambers No greater musician than Gorge ever lived in the realm of the sidhe. No faerie musician ever delved so deeply into the taboo songs and the forbidden music&emdash;the Way of the Bone. Yet, Gorge refused to…