Horror Roundtable 11 – The Master: The Continuing Impact of Stephen King

When: 11 August, 2013 Time: 8pm EST (use the Time Zone Converter to find your local time) The Master: The Continuing Impact of Stephen King Carrie, Salem’s Lot, It, The Shining, The Stand, The Dark Tower series, Under the Dome, Joyland... Movies such as The Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, Misery, The Green Mile, The Mist... The comic American Vampire, plus all of those wonderfully chilling short stories... Stephen King’s impact on not just the horror genre but the writing world in general is immense. Let’s delve down into it and see what this impact is, and why his name will forever…

Horror Writers Association x DressHead Plus Size One Piece Skirted Swimsuit – Polka Dot

This dynamically styled Horror Writers Association x DressHead Plus Size One Piece Skirted Swimsuit - Polka Dot appeals to all women with its excellent design and color combination of simple black and white. A semi sheer panel at the tummy adds yet another excellent dimension to this lovely swim suit. Broad white strips crisscross at the waist and wrap around the back and continue across your lower back. Another sheer panel insert is stitched between the upper shoulder and waist in the back. Adjustable white straps support your bust line easily, creating a sexy, womanly look. Black and white only.…

Horror Writers Association x dresslands Purple Mid-Thigh Backless Dress

This hot dresslands x Horror Writers Association cheap purple mid-thigh backless dress has an appealing color and a charm that will help to boost your confidence. The chest is open and shows of the curves in a tasteful way. The plus size woman will love the relaxed fit and flattering aspects of the dress. The waist is adorned with a sash look that separates the top and bottom of the piece. The sleeves are long and help to make a slimmer appearance. The skirt is short and moves with you to flow around you flatteringly. This is a sturdy and…

Scary Out There: A Blog on Horror in Young Adult Fiction: A Chat with Gretchen McNeil

Welcome back to SCARY OUT THERE, the Horror Writers Association’s new blog on scary fiction for teens. JONATHAN MABERRY: My guest this week Gretchen McNeil who is one of those ‘does it all’ people. She’s an opera singer, writer and clown. Her YA horror novels include POSSESS, TEN, and 3:59 (debuting this fall from Balzer + Bray). Gretchen also contributed an essay to the DEAR TEEN ME, an anthology from Zest Books. Gretchen is a former coloratura soprano, the voice of Mary on G4's Code Monkeys and she sings with the LA-based circus troupe Cirque Berzerk. Gretchen blogs with The Enchanted…

August in Poetry: Boston, Faherty, Schwader, MacAllister

This month we have a reprinted column from the Blood and Spades column by the brilliant Bruce Boston, as well as a host of reprinted poetry from other luminaries--JG Faherty,  Ann K. Schwader, and Carol MacAllister--of the HWA. The poems were selected this month to exhibit the versatile styles and voices of our members, and next month we have a number of additonal pieces which define our poets' originality and their unique perception of the world. *** ILLUMINATING THE PROSE POEM by Bruce Boston * The human mind is prone to create labels in order to understand the world around…
2012 Bram Stoker Award® Posters

2012 Bram Stoker Award® Posters

HWA's favorite artist Greg Chapman just made these fabulous posters to announce the winners and nominees in each category. Click on each one to view the larger, high-resolution (300 dpi) image. These are free to use and share; if you would like a file for use in producing a poster, please contact Greg. NOVEL FIRST NOVEL YOUNG ADULT NOVEL GRAPHIC NOVEL LONG FICTION SHORT FICTION SCREENPLAY ANTHOLOGY FICTION COLLECTION NON-FICTION POETRY
Video Interview with Ramsey Campbell

Video Interview with Ramsey Campbell

Guest of Honor Ramsey Campbell is interviewed during the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend/World Horror Convention 2013 in New Orleans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSliZzUictM&feature=youtu.be

Horror Roundtable 10 – The Long Hard Road

When: July 17, 2013 Time: 8.30pm EST (use the Time Zone Converter to find your local time) The Long Hard Road One thousand and one (or perhaps a few less) lessons learned along the long hard road to publication. Tips and suggestions that might help other writers get published, things you've discovered the hard way through trial and error--or should these mistakes be withheld from new writers so they can 'earn their stripes?' Let's cover the gambit, from writing classes and critique groups, submitting via the top down approach or to 'exposure' markets first, replying to rejections, hounding editors and other writers at cons--the…
2012 Bram Stoker Award® Winners

2012 Bram Stoker Award® Winners

The Horror Writers Association chose a historic hotel in the haunted city of New Orleans to announce the winners of the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards® tonight. The presentations were made at a banquet held as the highlight of the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend, which this year incorporated the World Horror Convention. Fifteen 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 The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan (Roc) Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL Life Rage by L.L. Soares (Nightscape…

SPECIAL DEAD by HWA Member Patrick Freivald

Author: Patrick Freivald SPECIAL DEAD Shackled to her desk, Ani Romero has a hard time concentrating on her studies. One of eight zombie survivors of the Prompocalypse, she’s back at school, but this time it’s no secret. Locked in their room, flamethrower-toting soldiers watching their every move, they’re tasked with homework and classes during the week, and macabre experiments on the weekend. When the courts rule they’re not human, only an appeal keeps them alive long enough to discover a cure. College applications and SATs pale under the threat of incineration, and desperation turns them into lab rats… …but the…

WISH YOU WERE HERE: ADVENTURES IN CEMETERY TRAVEL by HWA member Loren Rhoads

Author: Loren Rhoads WISH YOU WERE HERE: ADVENTURES IN CEMETERY TRAVEL Over the past two decades, Loren Rhoads has visited literally hundreds of graveyards. She’s traveled to London’s Highgate Cemetery, strolled through the Paris Catacombs, seen Hollywood Forever pulled back from the brink of destruction, studied Native American graveyards in Michigan, explored a circuit minister’s churchyard on Maui, delved into the Protestant Cemetery of Rome and Zoshigaya Reien in Tokyo, and made stops in Prague, Boston, Los Angeles, Hiroshima, Yosemite, Sleepy Hollow, Gettysburg, and New Orleans along the way. Come along on her adventures in cemeteries around the world. “Lovingly…

SUMMER’S END by HWA Member Lisa Morton

Author: Lisa Morton SUMMER'S END When Lisa Morton, author of The Halloween Encyclopedia, is called in to consult on the recent discovery of a fifteen-hundred-year-old Celtic manuscript, she’s at first excited about the light this monumental find might shed on Samhain, the mysterious Celtic precursor to Halloween. Conor ó Cuinn, the Irish archaeologist who excavated the manuscript, thinks it reveals ancient magic. Lisa is skeptical…until people around her begin dying. Dr. Wilson Armitage, the university professor who was translating the manuscript, is found torn apart by wild animals…or was he actually attacked by vicious sidh, malicious Celtic spirits that wreak…

SMOG / BAGGAGE OF ETERNAL NIGHT (Double Down #2) by HWA Members Lisa Morton and Eric J. Guignard

Authors: Lisa Morton and Eric J. Guignard In Smog, tomboy Joey thinks she’s got the perfect life: It’s 1965 and she lives in an idyllic Southern California suburb where everyone works for the aerospace industry. But when something goes wrong with a rocket test, the smog thickens and the teenagers change into rampaging killers. Can Joey survive long enough to escape the neighborhood before she joins their ranks? BAGGAGE OF ETERNAL NIGHT: 1963 Detroit is a hotbed of gambling, and the weekly baggage auctions keep a busy trade. Regulars, Charlie Stewart and Joey Third, are skilled in the methods of…

Scary Out There: A Blog on Horror in Young Adult Fiction – A Chat with Melissa de la Cruz

Welcome back to SCARY OUT THERE, the Horror Writers Association’s new blog on scary fiction for teens. My guest this week is Melissa de la Cruz is the New York Times and USA Today best-selling author of a slew of critically acclaimed and award-winning novels for teens including the BLUE BLOODS series, The AU PAIR series, The ASHLEYS series, Angels on Sunset Boulevard, Girl Stays in the Picture, and the Witches of East End series. She has worked as a fashion and beauty editor and has written for dozens of publications including The New York Times, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar,…
July in Poetry: Dorr, Deininger, Faherty, Bilof

July in Poetry: Dorr, Deininger, Faherty, Bilof

This time we have the poetry of Keith Deininger, J G Faherty and Vincenzo Bilof. We also are including an archived Blood & Spades column by James Dorr. *** Art copyright Sandy DeLuca 2013 * "Memento of Truth" by Vincenzo Bilof   You can die this way, cry this way, hide this day, burn this fate. Nobody has to unravel the mystery behind my eyes, the natural and super-mystical way I carve into your thighs. Slightly, (one gash) a sordid, artistically-placed em-dash. Is that a tear I see fall from those bright white orbs?   (Can't you see)   this…
2014 Bram Stoker Award® banquet site is now live!

2014 Bram Stoker Award® banquet site is now live!

Our new website promoting the Bram Stoker Award® Banquet at World Horror Convention in Portland next May is now live. No word yet from the organizers about when banquet tickets will go on sale. Thanks go to our Platinum Sponsor, Samhain Horror (renewing for a third year and allowing us to once again webcast the event) and Supporting Sponsor JournalStone: www.stokers2014.org
Stephen King on Richard Matheson’s Passing

Stephen King on Richard Matheson’s Passing

We've lost one of the giants of the fantasy and horror genres. From THE BEARDLESS WARRIORS, his brilliant (and largely unread) World War II novel, to THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and all the wonderful TWILIGHT ZONE scripts and stories, Matheson fired the imaginations of three generations of writers. Without his I AM LEGEND, there would have been no NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD; without NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, there would have been no WALKING DEAD, 28 DAYS LATER, or WORLD WAR Z. Matheson wrote the script for Steven Spielberg's extraordinary film, DUEL, and created one of the most brain-freezingly…
Bram Stoker Award® Winners Photo

Bram Stoker Award® Winners Photo

The 2012 Bram Stoker Award® winners: Top row (left to right): Mort Castle, L.L. Soares, Jerad Walters, Rocky Wood, Jonathan Maberry. Lower row/middle: Sam Weller, James Chambers, Lucy Snyder, Marge Simon, Robert McCammon, Caitlin R. Kiernan (seated), Charles Day, Lisa Morton (Photo by Stacy Scranton) (Not pictured: Gene O'Neill, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard, Joyce Carol Oates, and Clive Barker)