2012-10-31 06:00:28The following is a true story… even the names haven’t been changed. It was the last week of autumn in West Philadelphia, and the wet, warm smell of falling leaves had just given way to the numbing chill of…
2012-10-31 04:00:04My favorite Halloween (so far) was the one I spent in England. I was researching a novel, and my research took me all over the United Kingdom, including to Northern Ireland. My itinerary had me doing half car, half…
2012-10-30 06:00:38As a child, I’ve always loved Halloween, including the night before. The cool crisp autumn winds howling outside. The brisk air through my open windows. The colors of the changing leaves, a golden brown or bright red and orange,…
2012-10-30 04:00:25Halloween, and cemeteries, and nightmares, and zombies! Oh, my! For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a fan of all of the above. Well, maybe not always the nightmares, though I can’t deny that they fascinate me…
2012-10-29 06:00:14The monsters come out at Halloween. It was the time when they didn’t have to hide and the adults could see them and not realize what they were. Some kids could, while others didn’t until it was too late.…
2012-10-29 04:00:02 I arrived at the Javits Center in New York City for the BookExpo—an oversized, rolling suitcase in hand to tote back all of those advanced copies of my novel that I would surely fail to give away. Inside,…
2012-10-28 06:00:38Joe McKinney is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Novel for Flesh Eaters. 1. How would you describe Flesh Eaters? Flesh Eaters is sort of difficult to characterize. It’s a zombie novel,…
2012-10-28 04:00:10Sometimes horror writers have big egos. It goes with the territory: we are entrusted with the godlike power to instill fear, to make mere mortals quake with terror, or at the very least, be too afraid to sleep without…
2012-10-27 06:00:46I found something in a cemetery last Halloween season. I want to tell you what it is. You know I want to, but we must stroll through this cemetery first. Don’t worry. It will be nice. It’s a very…
2012-10-27 04:00:59Halloween has always been one of my favourite holidays. This is an oddity because, growing up, I was a particularly frightened child: the kind of kid who clings to cotton bedsheets at three in the morning as some kind…