Halloween Reanimated by Tori Eldridge
When I was a kid, the horror was mild, the giggling loud, and the worry left to a minimum. Gypsies and fairies roamed the neighborhood streets at night in unsupervised… Read more
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Setting, The Other Character by Frazer Lee
Setting is such a vital component of any horror story, to the extent that the place in which the narrative is framed can become a central character.
Take, for example,… Read more
68 Years of Halloween by Steve Rasnic Tem
I believe I was seven years old the first time I went trick-or-treating. Before that I wasn’t much aware of the holiday, and I certainly didn’t connect it with anything… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Eric J. Guignard
Happy Saturday! Continuing the interview spotlight series, today Halloween Haunts chats with writer/editor Eric J. Guignard, whose debut collection, That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction, was published… Read more
Zoinks! By David Ghilardi
Mitts was dressed as the Fonz, but now lolled at me like Droopy Dog.
I couldn’t figure why. We’d decided Halloween was done for us. We were hungrily stuffing our… Read more
Ghost-Inspired Fiction by Loren Rhoads
Once I paid for the initial Haunted Mansion Writers Retreat in 2010, I worried what I’d do if the mansion really was haunted. What if things got really bad and… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Ashley Dioses
Happy Wednesday! Today Halloween Haunts features an interview spotlight with poet Ashley Dioses whose poetry has recently been featured in Weirdbook 41 from Wildside Press and The Audient Void: A… Read more
When I was a Witch By Paul Dale Anderson
Among the many reasons I became a board-certified hypnotist, hypnosis instructor, and past-life regression therapist, was a life-long fascination with witches.
I’d always suspected that my grandmother had been a… Read more
Gamers Guide to Halloween Video Games (That Actually Take Place on Halloween) By Nicholas Diak
Introduction
Year after year, various online periodicals compile lists of the best video games to play during the month of October. Typically, these articles mostly adhere to listing universally renown… Read more
10 Things to Do on Halloween by Joanna Parypinski
It’s that time of year again when horror lovers have to decide what they will do to make the most of their precious Halloween time. Sure, there are tons of… Read more
The Challenges of Writing a Spook Show by David Lucarelli
Before there were TV horror hosts, haunted houses, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, there were spook shows. Now a nearly forgotten bit of Americana, these once incredibly popular shows… Read more
Halloween in the Shadows by Amanda Trujillo
“My name is Victoria Winters and my journey is beginning…a journey that will take me to a strange, dark house, high atop Widows’ Hill. A house called Collinwood…”
So begins… Read more
Too Close to Home by Marlena Frank
I love reading about haunted houses. The Haunting of Hill House is still one of my absolute favorite ghost stories. But I find it very difficult to write about them,… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Rhonda Jackson Joseph
Happy Wednesday! Welcome back to another interview spotlight, a new feature for this year’s Halloween Haunts. Today Halloween Haunts catches up with Dr. Rhonda Jackson Joseph who is a Texas-based… Read more
Sounds of Halloween by Naching T. Kassa
The room is dark. Dim, red light shines from the electronic device as it whirs softly. White noise sounds followed by a menacing voice. Gooseflesh rises with that tone.
Who… Read more
Horror World Building Tips by Joanna Nelius
I tend to look at world building in horror as half technical, half psychological. We’re writing about fear at its core, trying to tap into what makes us the most… Read more
National Dark Poetry Day by Peter Adam Salomon
One of the oldest surviving works of literature is the Epic of Gilgamesh. It dates back to the 18th Century BCE. For those unfamiliar with the story, here’s a short… Read more
Publisher Tips from Kate at Omnium Gatherum by Kate Jonez
Happy Octoberween—the holiday for people who celebrate all month long! For many years now, I’ve been working with new authors as chief editor at the Bram Stoker Award ® winning… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Sean Patrick Traver
Happy Friday everyone! Today, Halloween Haunts catches up with horror writer Sean Patrick Traver, author of The Temple Tree & Towerseries and the recent novella, Wraith Ladies Who Lunch. Both… Read more
Halloween – Haunted Places of New Zealand by Dan Rabarts & Lee Murray
In our Underworld Gothic blogpost last year, we pointed out that Halloween isn’t really a thing down under in New Zealand. It’s true: hardly anyone goes trick-or-treating, you don’t see… Read more
