2025-10-22 22:49:41Halloween Haunts: This Haunted House Will Save You By Henry Corrigan Everything we do, tends to have a purpose behind it. We humans might be weird, but we don’t really do random. That’s because randomness is risky. It…
2025-10-22 20:11:03 Newsfast: Menu for the Machine by Angela Yuriko Smith Thoughts are deadly gossamer, silvery filaments breaching the vacant void to reach me. Dangers tremble along my neural networks, each tentative vibration a warning that there is a ghost…
2025-10-22 13:42:55Halloween Haunts: An Australian Gothic Haunt… Leanbh Pearson I’m an Australian horror author which means our celebrations for Hallow’s Eve, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos occur in Fall in northern hemisphere. But for us Aussies and Kiwis the…
2025-10-21 18:58:55 The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence Plaguing Our Schools Must End By Pedro Iniguez This poem originally appeared in Star*Line #45.3, 2022 Their atoms dust the floors of every school in the country; those frightened children we can…
2025-10-21 16:52:53 The Horror Writers Association calls for suggestions and nominations from the membership for the 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award. The Lifetime Achievement Award is presented annually to an individual whose work has substantially influenced the horror genre. While…
2025-10-21 14:07:37Halloween Haunts: Samhain By Brooke MacKenzie During my senior year of high school, I had become a devout practitioner of Wicca, and I made sure everyone around me knew it. I would offer “Blessed Be” as a standard…
2025-10-20 18:49:15 Terrors of Today: Modern Horror Poetry It’s been 180 years since Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Raven,” the poem that turned him into an overnight success, only four years before his life was tragically cut short at just…
2025-10-20 14:07:25Halloween Haunts: An HWA Halloween By Robert Cabeen Instead of promoting my own dark doings, I’m going to provide photographic evidence that HWA members deserve Kevin Wetmore’s moniker, “Halloween People.” Our annual Halloween galas provided HWA members, from across…
2025-10-19 23:00:16Halloween Haunts: “Was I Supposed to be Scared?” By J.B. Corso This is the worst question a horror reader can ask themselves. If you or your reader asked this, at least one of two things is likely…
2025-10-19 14:07:10Halloween Haunts: Horror Influences By Dean Cade I never planned on becoming a writer. The seeds were planted since I was a horror fan from a young age. My earliest memory of being scared in a theater was seeing…