Halloween Haunts: A Kiwi Halloween by Marty Young
Growing up in Hastings, New Zealand, we never really got to enjoy Halloween.
It existed—for me, anyway—as some kind of weird holiday I got to see on TV and in… Read more
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Halloween Haunts: The Gift of Fear by Rebecca Cantrell aka Bekka Black
Halloween is about scaring the crap out of kids and then giving them sugar. Tricks. Treats. Making little lions and Spidermen and pirates and kittens happy while giving them nightmares.… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Dead Mann Talking by Stefan Petrucha
In an initial draft of the first book of my zombie detective series, Dead Mann Walking, a group of peacefully protesting undead, pushed too far by the living, go feral,… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with Rocky Wood
Rocky Wood is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Acheivement in Non-fiction for his book Stephen King: A Literary Companion.
1. How would you describe Stephen… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Why Horror? by Cher Green
I’ve wanted to be a writer for as far back as I can remember. Emily Dickinson led me into poetry, and V.C. Andrews opened me up to fiction. My reading… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Why Horror Should Be Its Own Genre by Annie Neugebauer
“Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction meant to be confined to the ghetto of a… Read more
Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Primer for Horror Writers by Lisa Morton
As a Halloween expert, I’ve been asked to do a lot of interesting things. I’ve been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the proliferation of sexy Halloween costumes, I’ve… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Specialty Press Award Spotlight–Roy Robbins and Bad Moon Books
Roy Robbins and Bad Moon Books received the 2011 HWA Specialty Press of the Year Award.
1. How would you describe Bad Moon Books?
We are a bookseller and publisher… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Making Halloween Mean Something by J.G. Faherty
Well, our favorite holiday of the year is fast approaching, and as always my writerly mind turns to thoughts of promotion. Or at least it did, back in August, when… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Fright Club by Kenneth W. Cain
Being the sort of person who never did care much for sweets, Halloween has always been about the surprise for myself. This is the one day when being weird is… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Halloween Dog by David B. Riley
Halloween was always a wonderful time when I was growing up. Though, as an adult, it really stopped being much of a holiday. As time went by, I sometimes was… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with Allyson Bird
Allyson Bird is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel for her book Isis Unbound.
1. Tell us about what inspired you to… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Celebrate the Bad Times by John F.D. Taff
Halloween. It’s trite that this holiday would be the favorite of a horror writer, but there it is. Halloween is my favorite holiday, better than that blissed-out full feeling at… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Be Careful Who You Scare: A Halloween Cautionary Tale by Laura Benedict
We had a marvelously terrifying basement in our house in Western Virginia, a perfect setting for a Halloween party.
The room at the bottom of the kitchen stairs was unsettling… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Diary of a Horror Writer–Entry 62 by Russell James
“What is that monstrosity in the driveway?”
I knew those would be my wife’s first words when she got home. I went to kiss her hello. Her eyes burned through… Read more
Halloween Haunts: Tricks, Treats, and Chainsaws by James Chambers
I’m certain I’m not the only horror writer who’s ever wondered what they would do if they found themselves in the real-life equivalent of a chainsaw slasher flick. I’d venture,… Read more
HWA Halloween Haunts: Giveaway Recipients
Many thanks to all those readers who supported the HWA’s first Halloween Haunts blog event! We appreciate you stopping by to read the posts and excerpts and enter for book… Read more
Halloween Treat Giveaway: B&N Nook Loaded with Horror Novels
TODAY’S GIVEAWAY: Courtesy of Christopher C. Payne and Journalstone Publishing, we are giving away a free Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader, preloaded with selected horror novels published by Journalstone Publishing.… Read more
Space Invaders Halloween
by Weston Ochse
Hackettstown, New Jersey—1972.
The small town of Hackettstown was right out of a Bradbury story back in 1972. It was the picturesque ideal and very well could… Read more
Horror: The Finest Emotion
by Rocky Wood, HWA President
Well, here we are—nearly at Halloween. Thanks to those of you who’ve been following HWA’s “Halloween Haunts” since October 1 and those who joined later.… Read more
