“Tis the Season for Chills and Thrills” By Lincoln Cole
Dictation Lesson:
This Halloween, I decided to try out something new that had always scared me: dictation! I’ve wanted to try writing my books by speaking the words aloud and… Read more
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“Why Fear?” By Lisa Lane
I was only twelve at the time, but I remember thinking that haunted house in The Enchanted Forest, a theme park our family happened upon during a family vacation, was… Read more
“Horror and Academics Do Mix” By Nicholas Diak
It’s February 2009, and I’m sitting behind a table in a small conference room at the Albuquerque Hyatt. I’m knee deep into the masters program at the University of Washington,… Read more
“No Place to Go for Halloween” By James Dorr
And what did you see at the movies on Halloween? For me, with a screen time beginning at 11:59 last night at the IU Cinema, the midnight showing for All… Read more
“The Real Headless Horseman” By Roh Morgon
Halloween.
My earliest memories of our favorite holiday revolve around waiting impatiently in my homemade costume for the evening to get dark enough to go trick-or-treating. The frenzied rush from… Read more
“When You See a Chance to Slay It…” By David Boop
Apologies to Mr. Steve Winwood, but while the arc of a diver might have been effortless, the arc of a story rarely is, especially when it’s your own.
In 2008,… Read more
“Cheap Plastic Costumes and My Imagination” By Damian Serbu
As a professionally trained historian come horror writer, I recently reflected on my childhood and what created the writer inside of me. I concluded that some of the imagination that… Read more
“The Late, Great Halloween Costume Massacre” By Maria Alexander
September 1976
Los Angeles, CA
“Sit down, girls. We’ve got something serious to talk about.”
My younger sister and I sit cross-legged on the scratchy brown carpet of our… Read more
“New Orleans Halloween Traditions” By Alexandrea Weis
The blending of cultures in New Orleans has left a myriad of different traditions ingrained in the eccentric psyche of the city. Perhaps the most profound occur around Halloween where… Read more
“The Spirit of Samhain” By David Sharp
Passing through the cemetery gates, I felt a strange calm juxtaposing to the hyperactivity of the city streets. The graveyard surpassed my expectations. It was huge — a vast expanse… Read more
“Falling In Love: The Second Most Terrifying Thing to Happen On Halloween” By Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall
Twenty years ago on Oct. 31, we decided to get married and start writing horror together — it was a monstrous decision.
We officially became engaged on a blustery Halloween… Read more
“Truth, Fiction, or Both? Confessions of a Horror Writer” By Howard Odentz
Writers write what we know. Even if we’re writing about ghosts, or monsters, or the disturbing woman with a peeping Tom fetish who lives two blocks away and only walks… Read more
“All Messed Up” By David Ghilardi
A hippy was standing out by the back gate. He seemed drunk, looking thru trash. I ignored him.
“They’re coming to get you, Barbara.”
“Stop teasing, Johnny.”
I glanced at… Read more
“How to Overcome the Horror of Writing” By John Allen
When I received the HWA mailer asking members to contribute for Halloween I knew immediately what I wanted to write about. I wanted to share something that would help other… Read more
“The Angry Woman” By Marlena Frank
Back before Katrina dumped the Gulf on top of New Orleans, my sister and I decided to celebrate Halloween on Bourbon Street. We met up with four of our online… Read more
“Who Says They Can Ban Halloween? By David B. Riley
They say you never really believe in ghosts until you’ve encountered one. Two Halloweens ago I was working in Vail, Colorado at a hotel. I worked graveyard shift. October tended… Read more
“The Time Halloween Almost Didn’t Come” By Charie D. La Marr
As news of Hurricane Sandy grew in the days leading up to Halloween, 2012, those of us who love Halloween were torn. More and more, it seemed like New York… Read more
“Horror for Tweens” By Kristina Stancil
Traditional or normal are words that I would not use in descriptions of my family. Examples of when we are not normal include a certain family member who will watch… Read more
“How to Make Witch Books” By Annie Neugebauer
Halloween is the best season for crafts! It’s also the best season for horror. AND the best season for books. So what better than making your own spooky book… Read more
“One Cool Way to Get Yourself Out There” By Tom Leveen
“The day Joe Pipkin was born all the Orange Crush and Nehi soda bottles in the world fizzed over…”~ Ray Bradbury, The Halloween Tree
This is one of those sentences… Read more
