How to Make a Monster By Janet Joyce Holden
I’ve always thought book-signing events should be cool and awesome, and with that in mind I always bring a few treats to give away. Buttons, flash fiction postcards, gift bags,… Read more
Halloween
Interview Spotlight: Robert Payne Cabeen
Happy Friday All! Today marks the last interview spotlight as Halloween Haunts welcomes writer, artist and poet Robert Payne Cabeen. At Stokercon this past spring, Robert was the recipient of… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Aric Cushing
Welcome to another interview spotlight! Halloween Haunts chats with writer/actor Aric Cushing, who is also a screenwriter. He is the author of the award-winning YA book, Vampire Boy, and with… Read more
Interview Spotlight: K. A. Opperman
Happy Wednesday! Today Halloween Haunts features an interview spotlight with poet K. A. Opperman who penned The Crimson Tome (2015, Hippocampus Press) and who has a poem in the newly… Read more
Halloween Reanimated by Tori Eldridge
When I was a kid, the horror was mild, the giggling loud, and the worry left to a minimum. Gypsies and fairies roamed the neighborhood streets at night in unsupervised… Read more
Setting, The Other Character by Frazer Lee
Setting is such a vital component of any horror story, to the extent that the place in which the narrative is framed can become a central character.
Take, for example,… Read more
68 Years of Halloween by Steve Rasnic Tem
I believe I was seven years old the first time I went trick-or-treating. Before that I wasn’t much aware of the holiday, and I certainly didn’t connect it with anything… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Eric J. Guignard
Happy Saturday! Continuing the interview spotlight series, today Halloween Haunts chats with writer/editor Eric J. Guignard, whose debut collection, That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction, was published… Read more
Zoinks! By David Ghilardi
Mitts was dressed as the Fonz, but now lolled at me like Droopy Dog.
I couldn’t figure why. We’d decided Halloween was done for us. We were hungrily stuffing our… Read more
Ghost-Inspired Fiction by Loren Rhoads
Once I paid for the initial Haunted Mansion Writers Retreat in 2010, I worried what I’d do if the mansion really was haunted. What if things got really bad and… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Ashley Dioses
Happy Wednesday! Today Halloween Haunts features an interview spotlight with poet Ashley Dioses whose poetry has recently been featured in Weirdbook 41 from Wildside Press and The Audient Void: A… Read more
When I was a Witch By Paul Dale Anderson
Among the many reasons I became a board-certified hypnotist, hypnosis instructor, and past-life regression therapist, was a life-long fascination with witches.
I’d always suspected that my grandmother had been a… Read more
Gamers Guide to Halloween Video Games (That Actually Take Place on Halloween) By Nicholas Diak
Introduction
Year after year, various online periodicals compile lists of the best video games to play during the month of October. Typically, these articles mostly adhere to listing universally renown… Read more
10 Things to Do on Halloween by Joanna Parypinski
It’s that time of year again when horror lovers have to decide what they will do to make the most of their precious Halloween time. Sure, there are tons of… Read more
The Challenges of Writing a Spook Show by David Lucarelli
Before there were TV horror hosts, haunted houses, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, there were spook shows. Now a nearly forgotten bit of Americana, these once incredibly popular shows… Read more
Halloween in the Shadows by Amanda Trujillo
“My name is Victoria Winters and my journey is beginning…a journey that will take me to a strange, dark house, high atop Widows’ Hill. A house called Collinwood…”
So begins… Read more
Too Close to Home by Marlena Frank
I love reading about haunted houses. The Haunting of Hill House is still one of my absolute favorite ghost stories. But I find it very difficult to write about them,… Read more
Interview Spotlight: Rhonda Jackson Joseph
Happy Wednesday! Welcome back to another interview spotlight, a new feature for this year’s Halloween Haunts. Today Halloween Haunts catches up with Dr. Rhonda Jackson Joseph who is a Texas-based… Read more
Sounds of Halloween by Naching T. Kassa
The room is dark. Dim, red light shines from the electronic device as it whirs softly. White noise sounds followed by a menacing voice. Gooseflesh rises with that tone.
Who… Read more
Horror World Building Tips by Joanna Nelius
I tend to look at world building in horror as half technical, half psychological. We’re writing about fear at its core, trying to tap into what makes us the most… Read more
