2023-10-22 14:07:27Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Poem by Maxwell I Gold The Castle Ephialtes By: Maxwell I. Gold A stronghold built at the peak of my contemptuous thoughts; haunted delusions fused together like steel rods composed that most…
2023-10-21 14:07:15HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: INTERVIEW WITH A HORROR-LOVING CHILD by Eric J. Guignard and Devin Guignard I sat down to write this blog post, and—as I do before any writing—I read a bit on the subject matter, what others before…
2023-10-21 08:00:09 By Tom Joyce While working as a ghost tour guide in Edinburgh, Jan-Andrew Henderson found a spot with all the makings of a real-life horror story – an eerie graveyard, a long-buried (literally) human tragedy on a grand…
2023-10-20 15:23:14 Submissions will open next month for the newest HWA members-only anthology! SCARING AND DARING ADVENTURES will be an anthology of original fiction stories that draw from the rich tradition of classic works of children’s literature and puts a…
2023-10-20 14:07:02Halloween Haunts: Thing That Make You Go “Hmmm…” by L. Marie Wood We speak of the dead in past tense and positives. We dress for them in ceremony and as protection. We offer them food, plant trees in their…
2023-10-19 14:07:26Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Wedding in the Cemetery by Denise Dumars A remembrance of Meg (Susan) Groeling, 1949-2023 Last October I officiated a wedding between two horror writers: Ashley Dioses and K.A. Opperman. It had a Gothic…
2023-10-18 14:07:28Halloween Haunts: It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Lara Frater I would like to take you back to a magical time. Before streaming and when few had cable. We only had 7 channels and the extras…
2023-10-17 14:07:33Halloween Haunts: When Taboo Becomes Tradition by Carrie Lee South When I tell non-horror people I write dark fiction, their response is often something like “Why? Don’t you want to think about something more positive?” But then autumn’s…
2023-10-16 14:07:52Halloween Haunts: The Facts in the Case of Edgar Allan Poe by Joseph Maddrey When I moved to Richmond, Virginia in 2021, after fifteen years in Los Angeles, I was disappointed about Halloween. Nobody celebrates Halloween like people…
2023-10-15 13:06:38Halloween Haunts: How a favorite holiday (Hint: It’s not Halloween) made me love spooky stories by Nikki Kallio When my collection of short fiction came out this year—an assemblage of sci-fi, speculative and gothic stories—a family member who read…
