Halloween Haunts: Haunted Houses
by David Sharp
One of my favorite Halloween traditions is going to haunted houses—not breaking and entering into an abandoned places where ghosts may dwell, but going to the… Read more
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Halloween Haunts: The Halloween Party Guest
by R.A. Stafne
Sometimes Halloween plans just don’t work out. Indeed, they sometimes fall completely apart. This does not necessarily mean that Halloween won’t end up being scary and memorable,… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Hallowmas
By Katherine Kerestman
The Hallowmas Feast was held in The Cauldron Black, an occult shop in Salem, Massachusetts, on the wharf in Salem Harbor. It is a close space with… Read more
Halloween Haunts: How Grandma Made Me a Horror Writer
by Jeremiah Dylan Cook
I didn’t know true horror until the day my grandma died. Up until that point, no one I’d known closely had journeyed into the great unknown.… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Quarantine Halloween: Trick ‘r Treating During an Outbreak
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
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
