Howlin’ Halloweens

by Janice Gable Bashman and Jonathan Maberry Halloween is one of our favorite times of year. You can’t go wrong with the spooky and the creepy. The gory and the gruesome. The fun and the fear. It’s a time when nearly everyone gets excited. Kids and adults run through the streets dressed as vampires and ghosts and werewolves and zombies. There are decorations, candy, parties, haunted houses and more. What else could you want? Sure, most people who know us would say it seems like we celebrate that stuff all year around. After all, our book Wanted Undead Or Alive,…

The Dead Have the Best Candy

by James Chambers To be honest, I can’t say for certain whether or not the dead have the best candy. But, I know they can arrange for some nasty Halloween tricks. I learned that when I was five. That Halloween, I went as Superman in a single-piece costume that slipped on over my clothes and a cape that tied around my neck. I wore that costume on a regular basis for most of the year after that Halloween, until it wore down to threads in places, because I preferred being Superman to an ordinary first grader and wearing it kept…