Halloween Haunts: Meet Joe Pipe by Pete Mesling
I grew up in a small town in North Dakota. I’d say the population was around 16,000 to 18,000 back then. In a town that size, there aren’t a lot… Read more
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Halloween Haunts: The Widow By Erik Hofstatter
A billow of fruity vapour swirled around me as I waited to begin my morning commute. It smelled like peaches and reminded me of a smokescreen employed by the… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Cheapers Creepers by Sumiko Saulson
When I get writer’s block, I turn to one of my other creative tools, such as painting or illustration. Back in the fall of 2012, when my father was in… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Mr. Moose by Walter Jarvis
Mr. Moose haunted our house at Halloween during my high school years. My youngest brother, who was seven at the time named him, and the name stuck for his once-a-year… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween, A Becoming by Lou Rera
Halloween is a becoming. In the parlance of pop culture, it’s an outing. You can become a Halloween extrovert and strut it, or you can be discovered in the shadows… Read more
Halloween Haunts: The Killer Pumpkins by Naching T. Kassa.
When I was a girl, I loved the “B” horror films of the 1950’s. My dad introduced them to me and I enjoyed the terrible acting, cheap sets, and silly… Read more
Halloween Haunts: The Last Haunted House I Remember by Kristina Stancil
Growing up in the Bible Belt I felt like an outcast. I didn’t care about Miss Piggy and her jewels that she always raved about. I was down with the… Read more
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Halloween Haunts: Hallowe’en in a Suburb and in a Library by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
I have spent much of my adult life chasing my drug of choice: the feeling of October in the New England of my childhood. The day gets darker earlier,… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Where Have All The Children Gone? by Kenneth W. Cain
This last Halloween was the first for my family in our new house. While my wife and I anxiously waited for children to show up at our door in… Read more
Halloween Haunts: How to Plan a Hallowedding by Joanna Parypinski
I knew I’d made the right choice of mate when I suggested to my fiancée that we have a Halloween wedding, and he agreed.
While the internet is rife with… Read more
Halloween Haunts: The Power of a Mask George Wilhite
Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, or at least a tie with Christmas. You can’t beat the latter for spending time with family and friends, the gift exchanges, the… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Your Story Idea is Stupid by David B. Riley
“A mirror that drips blood? Really?” That was the response an editor of an anthology of horror stories gave me after she read and rejected my submission.
Let’s go back… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween Costumes by Paul Stansfield
Today, I thought I’d discuss costumes, mostly some highlights (and lowlights) from my personal history.
I’ll start with one of my first costumes, as a skeleton, when I was four… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Nightmare On My Street by Edward P. Cardillo
Halloween is my Christmas, as my wife explains it to her friends. Every October I open up the garage, drudge out the life-sized witch, Headless Horseman, and Grim Reaper;… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Tricks, Treats, and Terrors by Christopher W. Clark
It is always this time of year when I can feel something in me start to shift, slightly. It’s an easing, a relaxing—it feels in many ways like the last… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Masks by Micky Neilson
Early on in my life I didn’t really get to participate in Halloween. I grew up with a schizophrenic father who had taken me from home at 10 months old.… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Never a Night Off by Lincoln Cole
Halloween is the best time of the year for enjoying the scarier parts of life. People who normally are prudish and uptight about horror will discard their preconceived notions for… Read more
