Posts byAngela Yuriko Smith, Author at Horror Writers Association [ 248 ]

In Dreams: A Tribute To David Lynch

• January 17, 2025
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Written by Jonathan Lees “This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.” — Barry Gifford Echoing from the smokestacks of an industrial plant, crawling in a severed… Read more

In Memoriam: Bruce Boston

• December 13, 2024
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Bruce Boston: an Appreciation

by Mary A. Turzillo

Bruce David Boston, emperor of the weird, the esoteric, the absurd.  Once a year at least, my husband Geoffrey Landis and I… Read more

The Bloodless Birth of Blood & Spades: In the Words of Marge Simon

• October 5, 2024
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Being invited to Marge Simon’s Blood & Spades column in the monthly newsletter is, for many of us, a goal to aspire to. I’ve found many of the poets I… Read more

REVIEW: “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” by Christa Carmen

• September 26, 2024
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Short-Story Review by Lee Murray “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (a short story by Christa Carmen, published in In Orphans of Bliss: Tales of Addiction Horror, edited… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “No Flesh over Our Bones” by Mariana Enríquez

• September 24, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “No Flesh over Our Bones” by Mariana Enríquez Reviewed by Belicia Rhea Short story in Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez. Hoggarth, 2017. Trigger… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Know Your Code” by Ramsey Campbell

• September 22, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Know Your Code” by Ramsey Campbell Reviewed by Penny Jones. Short story published in Chiral Mad 3: An anthology of psychological horror, edited by Michael Bailey, published… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Moira” by Jamie Flanagan

• September 20, 2024
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While mental illness is conventionally seen as emanating from the mind—the brain malfunctioning— and expressed through the body—physical responses such as insomnia or nausea, Jaimie Flanagan’s short story “Moira” identifies the true locus of mental illness—the soul—and names this state “soul-sick,” emphasizing how mental illness affects the very core of our being, our identity and sense of self. Review written by E.S. Magill.

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, novel by Shirley Jackson

• September 18, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: We Have Always Lived in the Castle, novel by Shirley Jackson First published by Viking Press, 1962. Reviewed by Rosemary Thorne TRIGGER WARNING: This review addresses mental… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• September 16, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reviewed by Brooklyn Ann Butler. New England Magazine, National Library of Medicine, and now public domain. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/theliteratureofprescription/exhibitionAssets/digitalDocs/The-Yellow-Wall-Paper.pdf Trigger Warning: This… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: EV Knight’s “The Flannigan Cure” from American Cannibal

• September 14, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: EV Knight’s “The Flannigan Cure” from American Cannibal Reviewed by L. E. Daniels Disclaimer: An author and editor, I am not a mental health professional. Trigger warning:… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Dream’s End” by Henry Kuttner and Catherine Moore

• September 12, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS  REVIEW: “Dream’s End” by Henry Kuttner and Catherine Moore Reviewed by Kyla Lee Ward Short story first published in Startling Stories magazine, July 1947. Variously anthologised. Story link:… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: The Grief Hole by Kaaron Warren

• September 10, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: The Grief Hole by Kaaron Warren Reviewed bv E.F. Schraeder Trigger Warning: This review addresses grief and trauma. A universal of all life, death touches everyone sooner… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: Shards: A Mental Health Charity Anthology edited by Kara Hawkers and Emery Blake

• September 8, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: Shards: A Mental Health Charity Anthology edited by Kara Hawkers and Emery Blake, RavensQuoth Press 2024. Reviewed by Stevie Morley Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental health.… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “I’ll Be Gone By Then” by Eric LaRocca

• September 6, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “I’ll Be Gone By Then” by Eric LaRocca  Iin The Strange Thing We Become and Other Dark Tales, published by Off Limits Press; also reprinted in The… Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Survival Ritual” by John Edward Lawson

• September 4, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: “Survival Ritual” by John Edward Lawson In SuiPsalms, Raw Dog Screaming Press, 2012 Reviewed by E.F. Schraeder Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental health and grief.  … Read more

NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: Welcome to the Black Parade

• September 2, 2024
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NOTABLE WORKS REVIEW: Welcome to the Black Parade Song/Poem by My Chemical Romance (musical group) Reviewed by Kevin Kennel Trigger Warning: This review addresses mental illness and trauma.  “Welcome to… Read more

Holistic Horrors: EV Knight’s “The Flannigan Cure” from American Cannibal by L. E. Daniels

• September 1, 2024
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Disclaimer: An author and editor, I am not a mental health professional.
Trigger warning: Addiction, grief, loss, animal death.

Holistic Horrors: EV Knight’s “The Flannigan Cure” from American Cannibal
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Interview with Pete Kelly, Poet-in-residence for the Dracula Society

• August 25, 2024
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Pete Kelly is a poet and one time voice of the band Gothamistic. He has been a horror fan since birth, so he says. He works as a shipwright when… Read more

THE INTERSECTION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND HORROR, Panel Report, StokerCon 2024, Saturday 1 June

• July 13, 2024
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By Lee Murray Trigger Warning: This article addresses issues mental illness. Trauma. Anxiety. Depression. Psychosis—the Venn diagram where horror and mental illness meet at times seems a perfect circle. This… Read more

SELF-CARE FOR HORROR WRITERS, 2024 StokerCon Virtual Panel Report

• July 6, 2024
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By Lee Murray Striking a sustainable work-life balance for the long-game in horror takes time and experience. Eric LaRocca, Christa Carmen, Ace Antonio-Hall (Nzondi), Pamela Jeffs, and EV Knight offer… Read more