2012-10-10 04:00:54Rocky Wood is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Acheivement in Non-fiction for his book Stephen King: A Literary Companion. 1. How would you describe Stephen King: A Literary Companion? Stephen King: A Literary Companion…
2012-10-09 06:00:37I’ve wanted to be a writer for as far back as I can remember. Emily Dickinson led me into poetry, and V.C. Andrews opened me up to fiction. My reading habits include poetry, short stories, long fiction and everything…
2012-10-09 04:00:03“Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction meant to be confined to the ghetto of a special shelf in libraries or bookstores… Horror is an…
2012-10-08 04:00:11 As a Halloween expert, I’ve been asked to do a lot of interesting things. I’ve been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the proliferation of sexy Halloween costumes, I’ve jabbered away on the supplements for the Blu-ray…
2012-10-07 04:00:45Roy Robbins and Bad Moon Books received the 2011 HWA Specialty Press of the Year Award. 1. How would you describe Bad Moon Books? We are a bookseller and publisher who specialize in horror and dark fiction. 2. Tell us…
2012-10-07 01:39:52Hi, all!Something happened that erased our database for the blog, and so we lost a bunch of posts. I’ve managed to finagle a backup into the structure, but it was an older one. We’ll be busy reposting a bunch…
2012-10-06 04:00:16Well, our favorite holiday of the year is fast approaching, and as always my writerly mind turns to thoughts of promotion. Or at least it did, back in August, when I started looking around for themed events in the…
2012-10-05 06:00:33Being the sort of person who never did care much for sweets, Halloween has always been about the surprise for myself. This is the one day when being weird is fully accepted, when wreaking havoc is only kids being…
2012-10-05 04:00:10Halloween was always a wonderful time when I was growing up. Though, as an adult, it really stopped being much of a holiday. As time went by, I sometimes was in Arizona, where my dad lives, and sometimes not…
2012-10-04 04:00:45Allyson Bird is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for her book Isis Unbound. 1. Tell us about what inspired you to write Isis Unbound? I’ve always been interested in Ancient…