Posts byKevin Wetmore, Author at Horror Writers Association - Page 4 of 8 [ 142 ]

Halloween Haunts: For the Love of a (Mostly) Black Cat by Sumiko Saulson

• October 1, 2022
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On October 31, 2009 something magical happened. That was the day that my then-fiance Gregory Hug and I adopted the approximately three-year-old predominantly black tuxedo cat we would come to… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2022 – It Begins

• September 30, 2022
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Welcome, one and all, to the Halloween Haunts for 2022. 31 days of essays, stories, images and ideas that show why the Halloween People are the best people. Visit each… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Real Life Halloween Candymen by Sumiko Saulson

• October 31, 2021
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If you have read Clive Barker’s “Forbidden” or seen either of the Candyman movies, you know that one of gut-wrenching images in the story is that of razorblades buried in… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Full Circle Halloween by Yvonne Navarro

• October 30, 2021
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When I was a kid… You know what the first thought that popped into my head was when I typed that? “Get off my lawn!” Which is not at all… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The October Blues by Amaris J. Gagnon

• October 29, 2021
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October was here and Halloween was right around the corner. Fall time was my favorite season because I loved all things spooky and horror. I was fourteen and right at… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Goal by Sèphera Girón

• October 28, 2021
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Halloween is always a fun time for horror lovers whether you’re a creator or a consumer or both. This Halloween may be a bit different where you are because many… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Beneath the Tortured Willow by Lee Murray, Geneve Flynn, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Christina Sng

• October 27, 2021
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On the edge of the village, beneath the gravid leaves of a tortured willow, I gather with my sisters, Geneve Flynn, Angela Yuriko Smith, and Christina Sng, on the eve… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Writing Horror When You’ve Lived in a Haunted a House by Diana Rodriguez Wallach

• October 27, 2021
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The first house I ever owned was haunted. I don’t say this to be dramatic; it’s simple truth. It was a brick “trinity-style” town home in Center City Philadelphia that… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A TIC-TACKING RITE OF PASSAGE by A.G. Mock

• October 26, 2021
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It was 1978—Friday, October 13th to be precise—when I was finally old enough to stay home alone while my parents went out to dinner and a movie. Or more likely,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Magic Pumpkins by Chris DiLeo

• October 26, 2021
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My father brought in the victims, two at a time, extra large and heavy. Pumpkins. Soon-to-be jack-o’-lanterns. He was an encyclopedia editor, a quiet man who worked tediously at his… Read more

Halloween Haunts: PENNYWISE SMILES FROM MY CLASSROOM WALL by Evan Baughfman

• October 25, 2021
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I lead children into houses of horror. I advise them against touching monkeys’ paws. But I urge them to listen to heartbeats thump-thump-thumping beneath the floor. I’ve taught middle school… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween’s Own Candyman by E.V. Knight

• October 24, 2021
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When I was a kid, my mom always went with us trick or treating and only to our friends’ and family’s home. Why? Because who knows what evils could be… Read more

HALLOWEEN HAUNTS: COVER REVEAL, EXCERPT, AND THE BRAZILIAN PRIESTESS WHO POSSESSED ME TO JOIN HWA! By Tori Eldridge

• October 23, 2021
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Long before my Lily Wong thrillers hit the bookstores, I was possessed by a dark tale of Brazilian magic. An immortal trickster, a California artist plagued by voices, a mixed-race… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Suburbia is Hell by Randee Dawn

• October 23, 2021
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Suburbs are hell. This said by someone who grew up on cul-de-sacs, down streets named after Ivy League universities, on parcels of farmland carved up into intentionally bland, vaguely descriptive… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Murder, a Cemetery, and Halloween by Lou Lrera

• October 22, 2021
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There is a cliché specific to writing we’ve all heard; write what you know. How does a writer of horror, know? Horror research can take the writer, as investigator, down… Read more

Halloween Haunts: MAMA AND THE MATCHES by Rosemary Thorne

• October 22, 2021
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She had never been fond of Halloween, my poor dear, and as the season approached she used to get thinner and thinner, bluer, much more translucent, her fair skin producing… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Hating Haunted Houses by Kerry E.B. Black

• October 21, 2021
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Hope sprang eternal for my father, because every autumn, he’d take my siblings and I to our area’s haunted houses. Designed to raise money for charity and peopled by local… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Spooky Box Tradition by Brianna Malotke

• October 20, 2021
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One of my earliest memories of spending time with my mom was also my first ever haunted house. I was probably the youngest person in line, but I was over… Read more

Halloween Haunts: If That One Halloween Didn’t Kill Me… by Brandon Ketchum

• October 20, 2021
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…I might yet fall victim to a future Friday the 13th.   One night, long ago (the early ’00s), in a place not so far away (Erie and Edinboro, Pennsylvania)…… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Queer Monster Within by Damian Serbu

• October 19, 2021
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What if I could become the monster of a horror film? Perhaps a lot of kids growing up in the 1980s fantasized about the question; many youngsters must have pondered… Read more