This time of year, when the veil is thin, is a great time to make a pilgrimage to thank our forefathers in horror.
Ray Bradbury, Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los… Read more
I’ve just come in from pulling the cornstalks and hanging them to dry. And next week, the high school will have its annual Homecoming Parade down our street.
What, you… Read more
This year, for the first time, the Horror Writers Association invited libraries to get involved with Halloween Haunts and help promote the event to their patrons. Libraries were asked to… Read more
The Irish countryside is alive with spirits. On Halloween, the Celtic New Year, the thin veil between this world and the next slips. For the Celts, the year was divided… Read more
The month of October has always made me feel comforted, I recall during my childhood years the local residents of Warley County in the West Midlands would prepare and speak… Read more
My daughter told me she no longer wishes to go out on Halloween night. This worried me, the thought that our children would never know Halloween night the way prior… Read more
Zombies.
I don’t get the fascination.
Aside from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, a few scenes of Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies, and a handful of children’s… Read more
There’s an ongoing fascination with vampires and the Undead, especially at Halloween. You can probably name a dozen novels and films/television series with vampire themes.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula set forth… Read more
Not yet at the time of this writing, but on October 31, 2014—barring unforeseen circumstances, such as stepping into an open hole in the sidewalk and being impaled on the… Read more
I’ll be 45 in November but some days I feel much older. I find myself talking about the Good Old Days and when I was a kid and saying things… Read more
Halloween is such an oddly pseudo-religious, family friendly, mildly inappropriate for children, cross generational, community oriented, unrecognized national holiday. It has all the bizarre mixtures of a surreal story element.… Read more
It sounds corny, cliché, but the truth is that when I saw my mother’s body in the coffin at the wake, she looked…good. Like she was taking a well-deserved nap.… Read more
One of the first stories I ever had published is “The Highwayman.” I’ve actually managed to get it reprinted some 10 times over the years at various anthologies and such.… Read more
The Last Night of October
The last night of October
is one of crickets,
loud and soft, blending
with a yellow gray sky,
a chill wind rising,
while… Read more
Visit horrorselfies.com to upload your own Horror Selfie and to see selfies from Stephen King, Lisa Tuttle, Peter Straub, Ellen Datlow, Aaron Sterns, and Ramsey Campbell among many others! And,… Read more
The best Halloween I ever had occurred a little over a decade ago. I was living with my sisters in a large house just outside of Las Vegas, and we’d… Read more
Halloween, to me, is about watching movies. Yeah, yeah, costumes and candy, too, but it’s mostly about the MOVIES. A hella fun flick I revisit nearly every Halloween is The… Read more
I’ve loved Halloween. It seems passé I should, but before I read my first bit of Lovecraft. I was crazy for the holiday. It was different, not the same tick-tock… Read more
As previously announced Charles Day is stepping down as HWA’s Mentor Program Chair after three years to concentrate on his roles as Co-Chair of HWA’s New York/Long Island Chapter and… Read more
I love the holiday. It’s dark, chilly October flying fast into November and the nights are full of ghosts.
Sometimes we become ghosts. Don’t we? Real horror is to face… Read more