LITTLE DEATHS by HWA Member John F.D. Taff

Author: John F.D. Taff You think you’ve got bad dreams? Consider author John F.D. Taff’s nightmares. How about the one where a guy resurrects his dead girlfriend with a set of the prop neck bolts used on Boris Karloff in the 1932 classic Frankenstein? Or one where the ghost of the author s dead dog keeps coming back to entice him into death so they can be together? Or the one where a guy loves candy to death? Taff has the kind of nightmares no one wants. But it’s nightmares like these that give him plenty of ideas to explore;…

THE CHESSMAN by HWA Member Jeffrey B. Burton

Author: Jeffrey B. Burton Hidden forces are willing to kill any and all who stand in the way of untold billions. To toss the authorities off track, they borrow the modus operandi of a brutal serial killer The Chessman who stalked the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. some years earlier. The ruse is working brilliantly except for one minor detail. The real Chessman is not pleased not pleased one iota that someone has stolen his M.O. Enter Drew Cady, ex-FBI agent, who finds himself being sucked back into the very case that almost took his life, a case that…

THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES published by HWA Member David Sutton

Author: Richard Davis Publisher: David Sutton's Shadow Publishing David Sutton's Shadow Publishing is pleased to announce that The Female of the Species & Other Terror Tales by Richard Davis (1935-2005) will be published late Spring this year. Richard never saw a collection of his stories publishing in his lifetime, and this book will include all of the author's short stories, culled from as far back as 1963 and 'The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories' up to the 1980s. The collection will include an introduction about his life, the fiction and anthologies, including his work as story editor for the…

An Interview with HWA Member Christopher Conlon

Interview by Ron Breznay Christopher Conlon bills himself on his web site as a writer, poet, and editor. He has written a number of prose works, including many short stories and two novels, Midnight on Mourn Street And A Matrix of Angels (he has adapted the former into a two-act play). Some of his short stories have been gathered into two collections, Thundershowers at Dusk and Saying Secrets: American Stories. He has published many poems in various magazines as well as in four collections of verse: Starkweather Dreams: Landscape with Figures, Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt, The Weeping Time:…

THE COLOR OF EVIL by HWA Member Connie Corcoran Wilson

Author: Connie Corcoran Wilson "The Color of Evil" has been awarded the Gold Medal (1st place) in the 2012 E-Lit awards. Tad McGreevy has a power that he has never revealed, not even to his life-long best friend, Stevie Scranton. When Tad looks at others, he sees colors. These auras tell Tad whether a person is good or evil. At night, Tad dreams about the evil-doers, reliving their crimes in horrifyingly vivid detail. But Tad doesn't know if the evil acts he witnesses in his nightmares are happening now, are already over, or are going to occur in the future.…

BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES by HWA Member Joseph Nassise

Author: Joseph Nassise Train them . . . Arm them . . . Then turn them loose on the zombies! At the tail end of 1917, the Germans introduced a new type of gas to the battlefield, T-Leiche, or "corpse gas," and changed the face of the war by resurrecting the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited source of fresh troops. When the American ace Major Jack Freeman poster boy for the war against the Kaiser's undead army of shamblers is downed over enemy lines and taken captive, veteran Captain Michael "Madman" Burke is the only…

THE UNAUTHORIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ETHAN JACOBS by HWA Member Dan Dillard

Author: Dan Dillard A computer programmer follows his obsession with the occult to a dark place. Visions of a domineering father drive him beyond the help of a best friend, a loving girlfriend, and even his dog, Slobber, to look for answers to questions we all wonder about. At first, it's a hobby, but after meeting a woman who claims she was haunted as a child, Ethan becomes entranced. When the entity first visits him, he is energized, but quickly becomes tortured and spirals away to a place where no one can reach him to help. He battles back with…

POSEIDON’S CHILDREN by HWA Member Michael West

Author: Michael West Man no longer worships the old gods; forgotten and forsaken, they have become nothing more than myth and legend. But all that is about to change. After the ruins of a vast, ancient civilization are discovered on the ocean floor, Coast Guard officers find a series of derelict ships drifting in the current high-priced yachts and leaking fishing boats, all ransacked, splattered in blood, their crews missing and presumed dead. And that s just the beginning. Vacationing artist Larry Neuhaus has just witnessed a gruesome shark attack, a young couple torn apart right before his eyes. At…

THE COLD SPOT by HWA Member JG Faherty

Author: J.G. Faherty Clay Daniels is an outcast among outcasts. Cursed with a terrible birthmark on his face, his life is an endless misery of teasing and physical abuse from his classmates. Things only get worse when his parents die and he's forced to move in with cruel relatives who make the torture of school seem like paradise. Then everything changes when he meets a boy named John in the woods behind his house. John and his friends don't care what Clay looks like, or that he's not strong or particularly smart. That's because they're dead, and the dead don't…

An Interview with New Member Gregory Frost

By Ron Breznay Gregory Frost is a writer living in southeastern Pennsylvania. He has penned novels, short stories, articles, and book reviews in the fantasy, science fiction, and horror genres. Greg has an extensive education in writing. He is a graduate of the writing program at the University of Iowa and of the Clarion Writers Workshop, at which he was later an instructor. He attended many Sycamore Hill Writers Workshops, the Nameless Workshop, and the Philadelphia Stories Workshop. In addition, he was one of the rotating Fiction Writing Workshop Directors at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Greg’s work has been…

CARNAGE ROAD by HWA Member Gregory Lamberson

Boone and Walker, the last surviving members of the Floating Dragons motorcycle gang, set out to "re-discover America" during the zombie apocalypse. Their odyssey takes them from Buffalo to Ohio, Kansas, Hollywood and Texas. Along the way, they discover that their fellow survivors pose an even greater threat than the undead. Jack Kerouac, Roger Zelazny and Cormac McCarthy have a new traveling companion. With Carnage Road, Greg Lamberson has taken his unique talent on a savage apocalyptic road trip tailor-made for the zombie generation. This book is dark gold, and demonstrates once again why readers who like their horror shot…
2011 Bram Stoker Award™ winners and Vampire Novel of the Century Award winner

2011 Bram Stoker Award™ winners and Vampire Novel of the Century Award winner

At long last, the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2011 Bram Stoker Awards™ at its annual awards banquet tonight. This year’s presentation was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, at the World Horror Convention, and marks the 25th Anniversary of the awards. Twelve new bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the writers responsible for creating superior works of horror last year. This year’s winners are: Superior Achievement in a NOVEL Flesh Eaters by Joe McKinney (Pinnacle Books) Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL Isis Unbound by Allyson Bird (Dark Regions Press) Superior…

THE SORROWS by HWA Member Jonathan Janz

Author: Jonathan Janz The Sorrows, an island off the coast of northern California, and its castle have been uninhabited since a series of gruesome, unexplained murders in 1925. But its owner needs money, so he allows film composers Ben and Eddie and a couple of their female friends to stay a month in Castle Blackwood. Eddie is certain an eerie and reportedly haunted castle is just the setting Ben needs to find musical inspiration for a horror film. But what they find is more horrific than any movie. For something is waiting for them in the castle. A being, once…

THE LADY OF SEEKING IN THE CITY OF WAITING by HWA Member Jennifer Brozek

Author: Jennifer Brozek Welcome to the City of Waiting. Welcome to Shadeside. From the moment Jane enters Shadeside, she is a pawn in a dangerous game between rivals. With no real memory of who she is or where she came from, Jane embarks on a quest to discover her past as well discover who it is she promised to meet. Along the way, she is protected by guardsman Derax, counseled by Lady Ellowyn, and warned of plots and betrayal by the most powerful oracle in the city. Through her travels, Jane meets a myriad of strange, wonderful, and terrible people.…

Bram Stoker Awards™ to be webcast live on March 31, 2012

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce that it will again webcast the Bram Stoker Awards™ presentation live in 2012. The Banquet is being held in Salt Lake City and the event will begin live on the internet at 9 p.m. (Mountain Daylight Savings Time) on March 31. The ceremony will take about 1½ hours to complete. The webcast will be presented at: www.ustream.tv/channel/bramstokerawards2012. This year the Bram Stoker Awards celebrate 25 years as the leading writing Awards in the horror and dark fantasy genre: http://www.stokers2012.org/. The Bram Stoker Awards Banquet is sponsored by Samhain Publishing. Among the…

DARKEST KNIGHT by HWA Member Karen Duvall

Author: Karen Duvall After the warrior she loves saved her from a murderous gargoyle, Chalice watched helplessly as Aydin turned into a gargoyle himself. Now, free from the curse that enslaved her, Chalice pledges to join her sister knights in The Order of the Hatchet and do whatever it takes to regain Aydin's humanity and his love. What she encounters within their hallowed sanctuary is pure intrigue. Someone or something is murdering her sisters in their sleep, provoking fear and suspicion among the order. Meanwhile, Aydin, unable to stay away, starts haunting Chalice's dreams, urging her onward. Ultimately, Chalice will…

CEMETERY CLUB by HWA Member JG Faherty

Author: J.G. Faherty 20 years ago, four friends awoke an ancient evil. Now it's back, and only the Cemetery Club can stop it before the whole town ends up dead. Or worse. Rocky Point is a small town with a violent history. Mass graves, illegal medical experiments, and brutal murders dating back centuries. Of course, when Cory, Marisol, John, and Todd form the Cemetery Club, they know none of this. They've found the coolest place to party after school - an old crypt. But then things start to go bad. People get killed, and the Cemetery Club knows the cause:…

HWA 2011 Specialty Press Award Goes to Bad Moon Books and Hippocampus Press

Bad Moon Books, of Garden Grove, California, and Hippocampus Press of New York, New York will both receive the Horror Writers Association's Specialty Press Award for 2011. The Award will be presented during the gala Bram Stoker Awards™ Banquet to be held this year in Salt Lake City on March 31. The annual Specialty Press Award recognizes a publisher outside the mainstream New York City publishing community that specializes in dark-themed fiction. Winners are typically "small presses" specializing in limited editions, small print runs, or the work of new and relatively unknown authors. The winner of the award is determined…

Bram Stoker Award Short Story Podcasts at Tales To Terrify

The Bram Stoker Awards™ are a staple and institution among horror writers and horror fans around the globe. As the Horror Writers Association and its members gather to celebrate the exemplary fiction, poetry and scripts of 2011, we at the Tales to Terrify podcast want to show our support for this award by bringing the Short Fiction nominees to a wider audience. Tales to Terrify has made a commitment to showcase only the best in horror fiction and raise the public profile of the short story as a format. We wish to represent the world wealth of this genre and…

Members May Recommend Works for Bram Stoker Award Consideration

The button has been reactivated and a handful of churlish vampire-toothed chipmunks are standing by to collect your recommendations. Only members may submit recommendations. Read the Award Etiquette page for tons of information on how to get your work or a recommended work tactfully to the right people. Follow this link to recommend works published in 2012: https://horror.org/private/stokers/.