2025-10-27 13:35:55Halloween Haunts: Three Generations of Halloween and Horror Love By Arin Ruhl A love of horror is my inheritance on my mother’s side, and Halloween is a family extravaganza. We own more Halloween than Christmas decorations, and perhaps…
2025-10-26 23:26:25 Halloween Haunts: How Scary Movies Went Mainstream, and How They Got Sutured to Halloween By Stacie Herrington Halloween and horror movies go together like peanut butter and chocolate. But it wasn’t always that way. Reese’s commercial (1986) Once…
2025-10-26 13:32:00Halloween Haunts: When Dreams Turn Prophetic: What My Nightmares Taught Me By KC Grifant Throughout my life, my dreams have been vivid, inspiring and, even fairly recently, borderline prophetic. Dreams becomes more culturally significant during the Halloween season.…
2025-10-25 23:28:03Halloween Haunts: DON’T SELL SHORT HORROR STORIES SHORT by Paul Lonardo For me, short stories are a lot like appetizers. They are bite-size, delicious and fulfilling. You can even make a meal out of them. Have you ever…
2025-10-25 13:23:25Halloween Haunts: A Modest Defense of “Trick or Treating”by Darius Jones By now, my Fellow Americans, I’m certain that many of you are aware of a fast-moving pestilence sweeping the land. A corrupting tendency, most un-American, among many of…
2025-10-24 23:07:32Halloween Haunts: SPIDER SEASON By Evan Baughfman Recently, I picked Arachnophobia for our Family Movie Night, and my kids (over)reacted as if I’d told them we’d be bobbing for egg sacs inside a squirming tub of tarantulas. They…
2025-10-24 19:00:42 Players by Lee Murray six players assembled to play a traditional game of cloak and dagger on the table, token representations pawns of all colours, players as young as eight you’ll be the cook, they decide and…
2025-10-24 14:03:11Halloween Haunts: Married to Horror: Perspectives of a Collaborating Couple By Stephen H. Provost Writers often approach horror from one of two perspectives: Either they’re writers who discover horror, or they’re horror lovers who find an outlet in…
2025-10-23 19:01:53 Inside Out by L. Marie Wood Inside out what’s inside bared to the air tender to the touch red and slick hothouse musk. Voice loud my mind Loud in the sky Loud Because it can be Private for…
2025-10-23 13:51:14Halloween Haunts: In Adolescent Clouds of Gloom By Sumiko Saulson 16-year-old Sumiko Saulson standing on the lanai of their apartment at Atkinson Plaza in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1984. Photo taken by their father, Robert Saulson. I landed at the…