Archive for October, 2020 [ 38 ]

Halloween Haunts: Quarantine Halloween: Trick ‘r Treating During an Outbreak

• October 14, 2020
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by Clay McLeod Chapman   In our home, it’s always Halloween. The ceramic pumpkins and paper spiders tend to stay hung up throughout the house all year round. I have… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Once in a Blue Moon

• October 13, 2020
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by Lou Rera Those of us who live for this time of year when we can be someone or something else without raising eyebrows, know full well, Halloween is a… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Owl

• October 12, 2020
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By Jeffrey LeBlanc Children of Horror, The leaves are crisped and sere with a harvest moon brilliantly glowing. Goblins, ghouls, and ghosts trek chilled, fog-filled streets to trick or treat.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Records!

• October 12, 2020
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By Dr. Greg McWhorter Heh…heh…he…The wind is starting to blow. The bats are flapping around in the moonlight. Distant howls from wolves can be heard late into the night. Ah,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Writing Modern Horror

• October 11, 2020
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By Heddy Johannesen Horror has a seductive hold on us. Horror is like a tentacle crawling from the crypts of our darkest dreams to suck us into horrific nightmares. If… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Scarier than Halloween

• October 10, 2020
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By Loren Rhoads   Halloween has always been my kid’s favorite holiday. I did everything I could to encourage Ezra in that, even letting her choose to stay home from… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Corporate Halloween

• October 9, 2020
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By David B. Riley I worked for many years in the hotel business in the mountains of Colorado.  At high altitude snow was a very real possibility for Halloween.  One… Read more

Halloween Haunts: All Hallows Eve from Someone Who Knows Enough to be Scared

• October 8, 2020
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by L. Marie Wood Pumpkins and goblins and witches galore… those are things that Halloween is for!  Ok, mayb e not, and I thank you for sitting through that random… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Barbasol and Terror

• October 7, 2020
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By Meghan Arcuri   The fathers always took us. That’s just how it was. Maybe the dads liked it more. Maybe they thought they’d get extra candy. Maybe that’s the… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Hundred Years of Horror Movies

• October 6, 2020
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by Amanda Trujillo Halloween is horror movie season. Actually, I enjoy horror movies year-round, but when Halloween draws near, I marathon my favorites. As a child, I’d watch my favorite… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Tradition of Fright

• October 5, 2020
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by Robert P. Ottone As long as I can remember, Halloween has been my favorite holiday. This isn’t an original concept, right? Every horror writer champions Halloween as the best… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Damp Wind and Leaves – Halloween Fiction from Amy Grech

• October 4, 2020
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Dracula. Frankenstein. The Mummy. The Wolfman. Posters covered his walls, as did cotton cobwebs, rubber tarantulas, and bats strung with elastic. Dribbles of wax added authenticity to the gold-painted candelabra… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Abroad: Exploring Origins

• October 3, 2020
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by Nicole M. Wolverton Hundreds of pairs of feet pounding on Millennium Bridge, the sound of it ricocheting off the River Liffey, was like being inside an enormous beating heart—the… Read more

Call for Ads for the StokerCon Denver Souvenir Anthology

• October 2, 2020
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StokerCon 2021 Denver is coming in May 2021 and now is the time to get your ad in for the souvenir book. Edited by Josh Viola of Hex Publishers, an… Read more

Halloween Haunts: How to Enjoy Halloween in Quarantine

• October 2, 2020
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By Jo Kaplan These are strange and terrifying times, my friends, but not the good kind. Not the kind of strange and terrifying when a full moon shines down on… Read more

HWA’s Next Anthology Call for Submissions

• October 1, 2020
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Other Fears – An Anthology of Diverse Terrors

Submissions open on October 1, 2020. HWA is proud to announce our next anthology: Other Fears will be an anthology of original… Read more

Halloween Haunts – Why Horror Matters

• October 1, 2020
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by Tim Waggoner Excerpt from WRITING IN THE DARK Years ago, a student asked me why I write horror. “You seem like such a pleasant person,” she said. I looked… Read more

Welcome to Halloween Haunts 2020

• October 1, 2020
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Welcome! Come in!  Welcome, foolish mortals! Is everyone sitting comfortably?  Good.  I’ll begin. {cue spooky music & creepy lighting} It is my honor and pleasure to welcome you to HWA’s… Read more