2011-10-25 00:37:47by David Sakmyster Being on the HWA’s Stoker Jury panel for screenplays, I figured at the least I’d get to study a lot of the year’s best screenplays. I’d engage in interesting discussions about the merits, and particularly the…
2011-10-24 00:13:56by Christopher Hawkins My wife and I met at a Halloween party. We both went in costume; me in a wizard getup that I’m still embarrassed about, and her in a sari that made her especially adorable. We connected…
2011-10-23 00:08:53by Amy Grech Halloween has always been my favorite holiday, more beloved than Christmas because it’s the most magical day of the year when candy is almost as plentiful as snow on Christmas Day! The trees shed red, brown,…
2011-10-22 00:59:23by Lon Prater By now everyone who wants to has had the chance to see Van Helsing, whether in a theater or on video. Few critics have had good things to say about the film, a fact that’s easily…
2011-10-21 12:42:20by Matt Mogk After a typically harsh Chicago winter, the city by the lake was sunny and bright in the early summer months of 1969. Escaping the rising afternoon heat, a young film critic named Roger Ebert ducked into…
2011-10-21 00:02:38by Anne C. Petty Years ago, I spent one memorable Halloween along with three friends at Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp, the famous enclave of mediums in central Florida. We stayed with friends in nearby Deland, who were openly wary of…
2011-10-20 06:41:06Full Title: Enter at Your Own Risk: Old Masters, New Voices Editor: Alex Scully Old Masters, New Voices: Looking into the dark past, Enter At Your Own Risk resurrects the Gothic masters and for the first time, they meet…
2011-10-20 00:50:21Nick Mamatas is is the recipient of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in an Anthology . He is the author of three and a half novels, including Sensation (PM Press) and with Brian Keene The Damned…
2011-10-19 00:48:49by Don D’Auria Halloween was always a very special holiday for me when I was a kid. Yeah, I liked the trick or treating and the candy, but that wasn’t what made it special. That was just the icing…
2011-10-18 00:39:25by Ann K. Schwader I’m delighted that HWA continues to support and honor poetry as one of the Dark Arts of horror. It was a thrill to watch the live webcast of the Stokers this yearand see the enthusiasm…
