2024-10-11 07:51:51Halloween Haunts: Eat, Drink, and Be Haunted by Paula Cappa What traditional Halloween supper do you conjure up on October 31? How about ghost-steaming penne pasta, murdered sliced-up sausage, and green spinach playing peek-a-BOO. At our house, this is…
2024-10-10 08:06:55Halloween Haunts: Obsession by Dean Cade Costumes and makeup effects have always been a part of Halloween for me. When I was a kid in the 70s, I would get one of the simple plastic outfits with a…
2024-10-10 08:00:21 What inspired you to start writing? To be honest, it was a group of alley cats. Even before I could write, I’d literally scribble and loopity-loop in a composition notebook about the cat families I saw outside…
2024-10-09 08:06:34 Halloween Haunts: Evoking Dread: A Balancing Act By Alexa Tanen I’ve always loved horror stories; the scarier, the better. But there have been so many examples of an idea I adore that’s given a not-so-scary execution. As…
2024-10-09 08:00:24 What inspired you to start writing? I was inspired to start writing because of the ghost stories I would hear as a kid, in particular, La Llorona; they sparked my imagination. I made up worlds in my…
2024-10-08 08:04:40Halloween Haunts: Arachnid Teachers By Heddy Johannesen I recall a night many years ago when I passed by a cemetery as I was walking home. Something was odd about the cemetery. Cemeteries are naturally spooky places. The streetlights…
2024-10-08 08:00:45 What inspired you to start writing? For a long time, I wanted to be a comic book writer I wrote various stories in the comic book medium. Unfortunately, the search for an artist/collaborator was a difficult task.…
2024-10-07 08:01:52Halloween Haunts: Sparkles: A Haunted House Story by Cassandra O’Sullivan Sachar When I imagine a haunted house, my mind conjures up broken windows, sagging floorboards, and cracked ceilings. I picture cobwebs in the corners and old-fashioned, dust-covered furniture. Rodents…
2024-10-07 08:00:14 What inspired you to start writing? It was a combination of two things: reading, and my day job. After I started working full-time, I developed the terrible habit of not reading anything longer than a magazine article.…
2024-10-06 08:00:59 What inspired you to start writing? I’ve always been a voracious reader, and I dabbled a bit in high school with a creative writing class, but I never really considered tackling anything substantial until I went through…