Archive for 2020 [ 99 ]
The Seers’ Table December 2020
Linda D. Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community
You can see any of The Seers’ Table posts since inception (March 2016) from the menu item “Diverse Works” on… Read more
The Haunting of the Disappeared: An Interview with Cynthia Pelayo
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The Seers’ Table November 2020
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October 30, 2020 by HWAWeb Kate Maruyama, member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee So many of our local bookstores are hurting during these times. If you… Read moreHalloween Haunts: When Captain Howdy Visits on Halloween: The History of the Ouija Board
By Lisa Morton
Whenever I tell people that I’ve written a book about séances, the subject of the Ouija board usually comes up very soon. Ouija boards have fascinated us… Read more
Summer Scares Reading Program
The Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with United for Libraries, Book Riot, and BookList, has launched a reading program that provides libraries and schools with an annual list of… Read more
Halloween Haunts: From Birthdays to Doorbells to Arson: Mischief Night
By Kevin Wetmore
My mother’s birthday is October 30. She told us that when she was growing up her parents would throw a Halloween-themed birthday party. My grandmother would call… Read more
Halloween Haunts: The Haunter of the Cul de Sac
By Nancy Holder
Oh, Halloweens of my childhood, those halcyon days when our parents hardly ever supervised us and had no idea of the traumas we underwent in the name… Read more
Halloween Haunts: The Hungry Ghost Festival
By Lee Murray & Geneve Flynn
Lee Murray: As a girl, I remember my Kiwi-Chinese mum lighting joss sticks for the spirits of the dead, always three or five slender… Read more
Halloween Haunts: “You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps”
by Frazer Lee
In another life, and another time (1998 to be specific) I was hired to work crew for several weeks on a film shoot. The movie production in… Read more
Halloween Haunts: The Voice and Poe
by Naching T. Kassa
When I think of Halloween, sweet memories come to mind. The scent of caramel apples, the brisk chill of October’s dying breath, horror films flickering… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Rising from the Dead
by Chris DiLeo
Every Halloween, my father rose from the dead.
He would wait until his victims were so close there was nowhere they could run, and as those quivering… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Can Halloween Be Pandemic Proof?
By Pamela K. Kinney
I always loved Halloween. When people asked me as a child what my favorite holiday was, I knew they expected to hear it was Christmas.… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Dive Bombed in a Nightmare
by Damian Serbu
Halloween often brings to mind memories of past frights and haunts. As a horror writer, I find myself drawn to moments that scared the crap out of… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Thank You, Horror
by Tom Leveen
The thing is, the non-readers of horror don’t get it. They don’t get our attraction to the darkness, to the monstrous. They don’t get that we,… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Everybody is a Book of Blood
By B.R. Yeager
Each October, we immersive ourselves in narrative. Yes, yes—those classic and cult films, those new and beloved books. I don’t need to tell you. Search “best… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Short Stories, Long Journeys – Halloween Lights
by Anna Taborska
Halloween has been lucky for me as a writer. The first story of mine ever published was a Halloween-themed story, and it came out in time for… Read more
Classical Frights — Halloween Poetry by the Great Ones
By David E. Cowen, Bram-Stoker Nominated Author of Bleeding Saffron
Every October social media sites become saturated with celebrations worthy of Samhain (pronounced “so-win” in Gaelic I am told). The… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween Then and Now and in the New Now
by Kate Maruyama
We do enjoy Christmas, but the most wonderful time of the year for my family is the Halloween season. When we first moved to the neighborhood,… Read more
Halloween Haunts: On Treats and Tricks
by Christopher Hawkins
Trick or treat. We say the words, but we don’t often give a lot of thought to them. They’ve become generic holiday words, not much more than… Read more
