2011-10-31 00:05:37by Weston Ochse Hackettstown, New Jersey—1972. The small town of Hackettstown was right out of a Bradbury story back in 1972. It was the picturesque ideal and very well could have been a stand in for Green Town, Illinois,…
2011-10-30 08:26:57by Rocky Wood, HWA President Well, here we are—nearly at Halloween. Thanks to those of you who’ve been following HWA’s “Halloween Haunts” since October 1 and those who joined later. If you only got on board today, lucky you—you…
2011-10-30 00:13:18Joe R. Lansdale received the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Savage Season, Devil Red, The Drive-In, Dead in the West, The Night Runners,…
2011-10-29 00:05:59by Nancy Holder I am one of HWA’s original members. I joined H.O.W.L. (the Horror and Occult Writers League.) I also served as a trustee in the early years, before we changed our name again to the Horror Writers…
2011-10-28 00:48:41by John Hornor Jacobs So far I’ve progressed through five of the seven ages of Halloween. I’m forty now, a father of two girls, and broaching the midpoint of my life. But I think back on the forty Halloweens…
2011-10-27 06:42:22Full Title: In The Bleak Midwinter: A Special Agent Constance Mandalay Novel Author: M. R. Sellars FOR THE PEOPLE OF HULIS, MISSOURI, THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS ARE HELL… On December 22nd, 1975, something unthinkable happened in the small, northern Midwest…
2011-10-26 00:40:28by Lisa Morton This is an excerpt from my forthcoming book Halloween, to be published by Reaktion Books in 2012. If you’re not familiar with Reaktion, they do beautifully designed pop culture histories with color illustrations, and Halloween will…
2011-10-25 08:39:08Gabrielle Faust is giving away one paperback copy of her novel, Regret. Enter now by posting in the comments section below or e-mailing memoutreach@horror.org. Read a sample chapter from the upcoming release Revenge by Gabrielle Faust and Solomon Schneider.…
2011-10-25 00:37:47by David Sakmyster Being on the HWA’s Stoker Jury panel for screenplays, I figured at the least I’d get to study a lot of the year’s best screenplays. I’d engage in interesting discussions about the merits, and particularly the…
2011-10-24 00:13:56by Christopher Hawkins My wife and I met at a Halloween party. We both went in costume; me in a wizard getup that I’m still embarrassed about, and her in a sari that made her especially adorable. We connected…