2025-10-10 14:00:09Halloween Haunts: Against the Fog: Halloween by the Sea By Juno Guadalupe Every October, I make a pilgrimage to Salem. It has become a tradition, not just for the theatrics of Halloween but for the way the town itself…
2025-10-09 14:00:21Halloween Haunts: In Search of Ghosts and Happy Haunts by Cecilia Kennedy I once entered a haunted saloon in town, sometime around Halloween. But nothing really happened. I drank a beer. It was good—cold, refreshing—everything I’d hoped a…
2025-10-08 14:00:44Halloween Haunts: Aren’t You Too Old for This? Really…? By James Ryan I remember how hitting puberty meant being told that I was now too old for Halloween. Back in those barbaric days, Halloween was confined to kids. The…
2025-10-07 14:00:20When the first breath of autumn touches the air, thoughts turn to colorful leaves, cinnamon-scented goodies, and pumpkins. Halloween can’t be far away. And each Halloween the headless horseman of Sleepy Hollow rides. Most of us don’t stop to…
2025-10-06 14:02:18Halloween Haunts: Am I related to Dracula? Or, Prince Patrick’s Perennial Halloween Costume by P.F. Roquelaure (pen name of Patrick R. Field) I was born with a prominent “widow’s peak,” the triangular shaped hairline on the forehead in which…
2025-10-05 14:02:37Halloween Haunts: The Wolf of Woodlawn AvenueRicardo D. Rebelo I have a Halloween animatronic problem. Not the “Oh, I really like spooky stuff” kind. The drive three hours north to buy a 12-foot-tall skeleton kind of problem. Last year, I scored…
2025-10-04 19:40:03 HWA Election Results 2025 The Horror Writers Association (HWA) held its annual election in September. We had a number of amazing candidates for the four open positions of Trustee. Offices of Vice President and Treasurer ran unopposed. Our members…
2025-10-04 14:00:36Halloween Haunts: Creepy Cat’s Guide to Entertaining By Katherine Kerestman Whether one is an armchair traveler or is infected with the wanderlust, she will occasionally wish to enjoy the pleasures of darkness within her own home. Several festive seasons…
2025-10-03 11:00:27Halloween Haunts: Setting the Stage & the Brown County Jack-o-Lantern by K.A. Schultz It is not terribly late, but the sun is about to set, its last lighted dregs trickling out from beneath the gathering wall of clouds. The…
2025-10-02 11:00:23Halloween Haunts: The Personal Nature of Horror Eugen Bacon As writers of horror, there are many motivations that spur us to write this kind of fiction. Some, perhaps like Eric LaRocca, there’s a certain glee in unsettling the…