2025-10-21 14:07:37Halloween Haunts: Samhain By Brooke MacKenzie During my senior year of high school, I had become a devout practitioner of Wicca, and I made sure everyone around me knew it. I would offer “Blessed Be” as a standard…
2025-10-20 18:49:15 Terrors of Today: Modern Horror Poetry It’s been 180 years since Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Raven,” the poem that turned him into an overnight success, only four years before his life was tragically cut short at just…
2025-10-20 14:07:25Halloween Haunts: An HWA Halloween By Robert Cabeen Instead of promoting my own dark doings, I’m going to provide photographic evidence that HWA members deserve Kevin Wetmore’s moniker, “Halloween People.” Our annual Halloween galas provided HWA members, from across…
2025-10-19 23:00:16Halloween Haunts: “Was I Supposed to be Scared?” By J.B. Corso This is the worst question a horror reader can ask themselves. If you or your reader asked this, at least one of two things is likely…
2025-10-19 14:07:10Halloween Haunts: Horror Influences By Dean Cade I never planned on becoming a writer. The seeds were planted since I was a horror fan from a young age. My earliest memory of being scared in a theater was seeing…
2025-10-18 14:07:45Halloween Haunts: The Frog and The Scorpion Go to Universal Studios By Michael Subjack “I know you’re going to tell people about that shit.” We were barely out of the parking lot when Brian delivered this statement with…
2025-10-17 20:22:34By Tom Joyce — Jeffrey Cranor, co-creator of the “Welcome to Night Vale” podcast, has good news for horror writers. You’re already the world’s leading authority on what it takes to write effective horror – a knowledge of what…
2025-10-17 14:07:51Halloween Haunts: My Season as a Scareactor By Rob Tiemstra It’s September of 2018. At Universal Studios Hollywood, rehearsal is underway for this year’s Halloween Horror Nights. My friend Noelle walks out onto the deserted upper lot and…
2025-10-16 14:01:58Halloween Haunts: When the Line Between the Living and the Dead is at its Thinnest By Amanda Worthington My mom had had a good day the day before and we were all unusually optimistic. The strains of my…
2025-10-16 08:00:51 What is your novel about? My latest book is a collection of horror stories, and Goodnight and Sweet Dreams, a rather ironic title. The stories are based on nightmares and human fears; there are demons, asylums, possessed…
