2024-10-06 07:59:53Halloween Haunts: Writing Horror For Comic Books By Jonathan Hedrick Long before the now defunct Comic Code Authority was slapping their seal on funny books left and right, the medium was no stranger to the macabre story telling of…
2024-10-06 07:59:36Halloween Haunts: “Halloween in the Hudson River Valley”by Katherine Kerestman www.CreepyCatLair.com An excerpt from Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards (WordCrafts Press, 2020) Halloween in the Hudson Valley – where the…
2024-10-06 02:38:39Being invited to Marge Simon’s Blood & Spades column in the monthly newsletter is, for many of us, a goal to aspire to. I’ve found many of the poets I love in her column and feel privileged to have…
2024-10-05 08:00:14 What inspired you to start writing? What actually inspired me to start writing was my sister. She has two children’s books out. One is called, I’m Hungry but No Bugs, Please, and Hello, Pretty Cloud, both available…
2024-10-04 08:00:08 What inspired you to start writing? My parents are avid readers, so they instilled that in me from an early age. We always had lots of books in the house, and they would often read to me.…
2024-10-04 07:59:51Halloween Haunts: The Pukwudgie By Ricardo D. Rebelo Bobby was in awe of the orange and green field. He looked forward to it every year. At thirteen he hadn’t seen many, but Bobby had savored every one. He…
2024-10-03 08:00:17 What inspired you to start writing? When I was 12, I became addicted to John Le Carré’s novels. At that age, I had read everything because at home my parents didn’t censor my reading. I read Flaubert,…
2024-10-03 07:59:49Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Scare for the Ghost Tour Host By David Allen Voyles Halloween has always been a thrill for me, even as an adult. Without a doubt, it’s the main reason why I write horror. For…
2024-10-02 08:00:57 What inspired you to start writing? I started writing fiction around my junior year of high school. Unlike many of my writing peers, I hadn’t grown up doing it, nor was I much of a reader. I…
2024-10-02 07:22:16Halloween Haunts: A Night at Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia by Nicole M. Wolverton We clustered in groups at the hulking gray-stone entrance of the prison. Twilight deepened, purple to gray. Nothing stirred beyond our nervous laughter. We waited…