Women In Horror Month 2024 : An Interview with Kate Maruyama
What inspired you to start writing?
I was telling stories, and acting out plays with friends before I could write. Then when I could write, my mom started paying me… Read more
Diversity
Women In Horror Month 2024 : An Introduction by Kathryn Ptacek
The Journey is Never Done. Kind of Like Housework.
Kathryn Ptacek
We’ve come a long way, baby. Well, if you were alive many decades ago, you’d recognize that… Read more
The Seers’ Table March 2024
Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community
March is blooming with all kinds of marvelous reading! Here’s a delectable array of spooky stories for you to choose from!… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview With Errick Nunnally
What inspired you to start writing?
It was a short journey from comic books to science fiction novels. My mother used to read comics to me along with Dr. Seuss… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Sylvester Barzey
What inspired you to start writing?
I’ve always been interested in telling stories, be it verbally or through poems, I even wanted to do comic books at one point. I… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview With P. Djèlí Clark
What inspired you to start writing?
Reading. I read a lot. And eventually, I started wondering if I could recreate the things I loved so much about reading. My earliest… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Ness Brown
What inspired you to start writing?
I started writing as a kid. While there was no single catalyst, I was largely inspired by online writers posting their stories to… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview With Lamar Giles
What inspired you to start writing?
It was simply fun. I was young when I first started making up stories, maybe 7 or 8 years old and when I won… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Justina Ireland
What inspired you to start writing?
When I was pregnant with my kiddo I was terrified of losing my identity as a person and being reduced to little… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview With Johnny Compton
What inspired you to start writing?
I got started in fourth or fifth grade and had some teachers encourage me as I got older, letting me know in one… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Eden Royce
What inspired you to start writing?
I’m from a storytelling family and culture. Exchanging stories at family gatherings, as we go about our chores, as we’re spending time together… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Jeff Carroll
What inspired you to start writing?
I was inspired to start writing by seeing the 1999 movie The Mummy. I had made two horror movies but, they were low-budget… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview With Kenya Moss-Dyme
What inspired you to start writing?
Probably my love for reading! I’ve always loved books and learned to read at age four. I was one of the kids who read… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Tish Jackson
What inspired you to start writing?
—Many many moons ago, I entered a contest in elementary school on why an amusement park should relocate to our town and won! I… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Nicole D. Sconiers
What inspired you to start writing?
When I was a kid, I used to sit at the feet of my great-grandmother, Sallie, and listen to her tell stories. She had… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Chanel Harry
What inspired you to start writing?
I have drawn inspiration from many facets of my life. I have always been reading horror novels and watching horror movies since I was… Read more
Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Kai Leakes
What inspired you to start writing?
My inspiration to write came from just growing up and aching to see myself reflected in the stories that I loved. I used to… Read more
The Seers’ Table February 2024
Tracy Cross’ work has been featured in several podcasts, including “Nighty Night with Rabia Chaudry” (advocate and author of the New York Times bestselling book Adnan’s Story). Her work can be found in several anthologies, including Other Terrors, Don’t Break the Oath, Pandemics Unleashed, and 99 Tiny Terrors. Her first book, Rootwork, a folk horror homage to her late grandmother, was published in the fall of 2022. Tracy understands what it feels like to be the 21st Century invisible woman. She creates strong female characters to debunk the stereotype that women should be seen and not heard. Her protagonists are strong, Black women, that any reader can see and support.
The Seers’ Table January 2024
Linda D. Addison recommends:
Jenny Kiefer is a Kentucky native and an avid rock climber. Together with her mother, she is the owner and manager of Butcher Cabin Books, an all-horror bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky. This Wretched Valley is her debut novel. She has short stories published in Pseudopod, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Jenny Kiefer is a Kentucky native and an avid rock climber. Together with her mother, she is the owner and manager of Butcher Cabin Books, an all-horror bookstore in Louisville, Kentucky. This Wretched Valley is her debut novel. She has short stories published in Pseudopod, Cosmic Horror Monthly, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. The Seers’ Table December 2023
Ace Antonio-Hall recommends:
Lisa Springer is a writer from Barbados currently living in New York with her family. She loves creating worlds readers can get lost in. Lisa is passionate about writing thriller and horror fiction for young people.
Lisa Springer is a writer from Barbados currently living in New York with her family. She loves creating worlds readers can get lost in. Lisa is passionate about writing thriller and horror fiction for young people. 
