2016-10-19 18:20:31 As part of the HWA’s commitment to keeping members and the public ‘in the know’ about what the organization is doing to improve itself, increase its value to membership, support the genre, and attract new members, there will…
2016-10-19 17:57:17 Snail Mail Horror Writers Association P.O. Box #14387 Columbus, OH 43214 All inquiries must be accompanied by a self-addressed stamped envelope for response. General E-mail For any HWA-related question. If you don’t know where else to ask, ask…
2016-10-19 10:00:49 I have spent much of my adult life chasing my drug of choice: the feeling of October in the New England of my childhood. The day gets darker earlier, the air becomes a little crisp like an apple,…
2016-10-19 06:00:44 This last Halloween was the first for my family in our new house. While my wife and I anxiously waited for children to show up at our door in search of treats, not a single one appeared. I…
2016-10-18 06:00:09I knew I’d made the right choice of mate when I suggested to my fiancée that we have a Halloween wedding, and he agreed. While the internet is rife with ideas for Halloween weddings, it’s still considered a non-traditional…
2016-10-17 06:00:33Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, or at least a tie with Christmas. You can’t beat the latter for spending time with family and friends, the gift exchanges, the way it brings out cheer even in years of…
2016-10-16 06:00:28“A mirror that drips blood? Really?” That was the response an editor of an anthology of horror stories gave me after she read and rejected my submission. Let’s go back a few years. I once worked at a haunted…
2016-10-15 06:00:23Today, I thought I’d discuss costumes, mostly some highlights (and lowlights) from my personal history. I’ll start with one of my first costumes, as a skeleton, when I was four years old. From a very young age I loved…
2016-10-14 06:00:54 Halloween is my Christmas, as my wife explains it to her friends. Every October I open up the garage, drudge out the life-sized witch, Headless Horseman, and Grim Reaper; ransack my man cave in the basement for skulls,…
2016-10-13 12:00:33It is always this time of year when I can feel something in me start to shift, slightly. It’s an easing, a relaxing—it feels in many ways like the last few miles driven on a long road trip, when…