Halloween Haunts: How to Enjoy Halloween in Quarantine
By Jo Kaplan
These are strange and terrifying times, my friends, but not the good kind. Not the kind of strange and terrifying when a full moon shines down on… Read more
Halloween
Halloween Haunts – Why Horror Matters
by Tim Waggoner
Excerpt from WRITING IN THE DARK
Years ago, a student asked me why I write horror. “You seem like such a pleasant person,” she said.
I looked… Read more
Welcome to Halloween Haunts 2020
Welcome! Come in! Welcome, foolish mortals!
Is everyone sitting comfortably? Good. I’ll begin. {cue spooky music & creepy lighting}
It is my honor and pleasure to welcome you to HWA’s… Read more
A Portrait of the Halloween Expert as a Young Woman By Lisa Morton
Happy Halloween! Today’s Best Of Halloween Haunts was originally published last year…..
When my father passed away in 2015, I received an unexpected and lovely inheritance: thousands of color… Read more
“Why Do We Love Halloween?” By JG Faherty
Welcome back to Halloween Haunt’s! Today’s Best Of was originally published in 2017….
As a horror writer, it’s kind of expected of me that I’ll be enamored of the… Read more
HAPPY HALLOWEEN DARK POETS
HAPPY HALLOWEEN POETS – 2019 IS A VERY GOOD YEAR FOR DARK POETRY
By David E. Cowen, Bram Stoker Nominated Author of Bleeding Saffron
If you are thinking of what… Read more68 Years of Halloween by Steve Rasnic Tem
From last year’s Halloween Haunts, here is today’s Best Of….
I believe I was seven years old the first time I went trick-or-treating. Before that I wasn’t much aware… Read more
“How We Made a Monster (and scared the bejeebers out of an entire high school)!” By Lloyd F. Ritchey
Today’s Best Of Halloween Haunts was originally published in 2017….
We watched with glee as a man scooped up a little girl and bolted for the door. The kid… Read more
Which Witching of Which Witches? by Nancy Kilpatrick
From 2015, here is today’s Halloween Haunts’ Best Of….
When I was seven years old, I saw a witch. I mean a real witch, not one of the politically-correct Wiccans… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Robert Payne Cabeen
Today’s Halloween Haunts was originally published last year…
Happy Friday All! Today marks the last interview spotlight as Halloween Haunts welcomes writer, artist and poet Robert Payne Cabeen. At… Read more
It’s Not a Season, It’s a Lifestyle by Greg Chapman
From 2016, here is today’s Best Of Halloween Haunts…
You all know my tale of woe. I am forced to live without the true spirit of Halloween because I live… Read more
Four-Color Frights by James Chambers
Happy Halloween Haunts! Today’s blog comes from 2016…
Every Halloween I follow certain traditions. A handful of movies I dig out to watch, some music I like to play, favorite… Read more
The Killer Pumpkins by Naching T. Kassa.
Today’s Best Of Halloween Haunts comes from 2016…
When I was a girl, I loved the “B” horror films of the 1950’s. My dad introduced them to me and I… Read more
How to Make a Monster By Janet Joyce Holden
Welcome to a Best Of Halloween Haunts from 2018…
I’ve always thought book-signing events should be cool and awesome, and with that in mind I always bring a few… Read more
Gamers Guide to Halloween Video Games (That Actually Take Place on Halloween) By Nicholas Diak
A Best Of Halloween Haunts from 2018….
Introduction
Year after year, various online periodicals compile lists of the best video games to play during the month of October. Typically,… Read more
Welcome to Halloween Haunts ‘Best Of’ Series!
Against the harvest moon plump ghoulishly carved pumpkin faces shine brightly in the night. Squat guardians of both urban and rural stoops; their appearance marks the return of horror aficionados’… Read more
A Portrait of the Halloween Expert as a Young Woman By Lisa Morton
When my father passed away in 2015, I received an unexpected and lovely inheritance: thousands of color slides, many of which featured me as a baby, a toddler, and a… Read more
Under the Autumn Stars by Tim Waggoner
Halloween night is one of my first –and best – memories.
I was just shy of eight months old. I was my parents’ first child, and my mom was excited… Read more
Hyaku-monogatari kaidankai or, This Halloween, Why Not Tell a Hundred Scary Stories in the (Growing) Dark? By Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Japan is a latecomer to the Halloween party. Since the millennium the holiday has grown in popularity, mostly in Tokyo, utterly influenced by the representations of Halloween at Tokyo Disney… Read more
Horror and Halloween in Singapore by Christina Sng
When you grow up in a haunted house, you expect to see something supernatural at some point, especially when an aunt claims to have heard chains dragging along the hallway… Read more
