Halloween Haunts Coming on October 1!
Beginning on October 1st and running through the entire month, HWA will once again present its annual Halloween Haunts blog series, with posts about history and Halloween from HWA’s members,… Read more
Halloween
Halloween Haunts: The Masque of the Red Horde by Gene O’Neill
Dim light spilling through a red-stained Gothic window cast a ghastly pall over a heavily shadowed long hall. At the center of the room, bathed in the bloody illumination, a… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween Night by Keith Deininger
I grew up in a relatively safe neighborhood in Colorado Springs, which was why, when I went trick-or-treating in fourth grade, I was allowed to go with a small group… Read more
Halloween Haunts: The Phases of Halloween by Peter Adam Salomon
‘Baby’s First Halloween’ This entails adorable costumes, miniaturized, and usually pumpkin shaped. While there’s no need for candy, there’s an intense desire on the part of parents to show their… Read more
Halloween Haunts: I’m Old Now and Halloween was Better Once… Really by John F.D. Taff
Ok, you know, it’s true what they say about growing old. Yes, about the aches and pains. OK, yes, about the fossilfication of your music choices. And, sigh, yes, also… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Tamlane and Alison Gross: Halloween Ballads by Lisa Morton
Although magazines and books like to tell us that Halloween is an ancient festival with pagan roots, the truth is the holiday as we know it is really only a… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween in Rockhampton by Greg Chapman
Halloween is spreading like the branches of an ancient bay tree across my hometown of Rockhampton, Australia.
Last year was the first time I decided to put up a Halloween… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Trick-or-Treating of the Dead, A True Account by T. Fox Dunham
Few of you know that I am a real zombie. It’s true. I hide it. Now, I don’t eat brains or human flesh though. I generally dress well, though my… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween – Derivations and Diversions by David Sakmyster
I have fond memories of my formative years playing Dungeons and Dragons and romping through some spooky forest only to come across that dreaded Will-o’-the-wisp—whatever that was. The Dungeon Master… Read more
Halloween Haunts: It Takes A Writer: The Legacy of CJ Henderson by Patrick Thomas
Halloween is a holiday steeped in tradition. The HWA is an organization with many traditions of its own. Arguably one of the most important is that writers should help other… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Blood and Coffee by Alp Beck
The dimness of the cave made it hard for the old man to see the thing’s details. The small gelatinous mass was of indeterminate color and shape. He squinted and… Read more
Halloween Haunts: What Your Costume Choices Say About You by Jennifer Brinkmeyer
I don’t know how many adults have a costume chest, but I have two. When spring cleaning rolls around, no clothes leave my house that have the potential to make… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Warm Regards from the Meatgrinder by Mark Onspaugh
All good ghost storytellers know that, if you want to make your story truly effective, turn down the lights.
But if you really want to crank up the gooseflesh, tell… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Where Horror Lies by Loren Rhoads
This time of year, when the veil is thin, is a great time to make a pilgrimage to thank our forefathers in horror.
Ray Bradbury, Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween Memories by K.R. Morrison
I’ve just come in from pulling the cornstalks and hanging them to dry. And next week, the high school will have its annual Homecoming Parade down our street.
What, you… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Horror Writers Association Goes to the Library
This year, for the first time, the Horror Writers Association invited libraries to get involved with Halloween Haunts and help promote the event to their patrons. Libraries were asked to… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Mass Grave by Colum Sanson-Regan
The Irish countryside is alive with spirits. On Halloween, the Celtic New Year, the thin veil between this world and the next slips. For the Celts, the year was divided… Read more
Halloween Haunts: The House of Hallows Eve by Anthony Crowley
The month of October has always made me feel comforted, I recall during my childhood years the local residents of Warley County in the West Midlands would prepare and speak… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween Lost by Kenneth W.Cain
My daughter told me she no longer wishes to go out on Halloween night. This worried me, the thought that our children would never know Halloween night the way prior… Read more
Halloween Haunts: I Don’t Get Zombies by Kristina Stancil
Zombies.
I don’t get the fascination.
Aside from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, a few scenes of Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies, and a handful of children’s… Read more
