Guy Anthony DE MARCO to receive The Silver Hammer Award from HWA

The Horror Writers Association periodically gives The Silver Hammer Award to an HWA volunteer who has done a truly massive amount of work for our organization, often unsung and behind the scenes. It was instituted in 1996 and is decided by a vote of HWA's Board of Trustees. The award is so named because it represents the careful, steady, continuous work of building HWA's "house" -- the many institutional systems that keep the organization functioning on a day-to-day basis. The award itself is a chrome-plated hammer with an engraved plaque on the handle. The chrome hammer is also a satisfying…

TWISTED IN DREAM by HWA Member Ann K. Schwader

Author: Ann K. Schwader During the past decade or more, Ann K. Schwader has become the most critically acclaimed living author of weird and fantastic poetry. Following the distinguished tradition of Clark Ashton Smith, H. P. Lovecraft, Frank Belknap Long, and others, Schwader has written scores of finely chiseled and powerfully evocative verse that packs all the intensity of a short story within the space of a sonnet or quatrain. The present volume gathers for the first time her collected weird poetry, including the complete contents of the landmark volume The Worms Remember (2001) and the sonnet cycle In the…

RAGE AGAINST THE NIGHT — Benefit Anthology for HWA President Rocky Wood

Edited by HWA Member Shane Jiraiya Cummings Under the onslaught of supernatural evil, the acts of good people can seem insignificant, but a courageous few stand apart. These brave men and women stand up to the darkness, stare it right in the eye, and give it the finger. These are the stories of those who rage against the night, stories of triumph, sacrifice, and bravery in the face of overwhelming evil. Rage Against the Night features the megastars of dark fantasy and horror, including Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Straub, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Nicholson,…

Il Posto Nero – December Links

-Review by Sergio Gilles Lacavalla of Scarlett by Barbara Baraldi in Italian -HWA Bram Stoker Award 2010 Ceremony -Videos in Italian -Horror Street: Interview with Mary Sangiovanni in English in Italian -Horror Lottery in Italian -Queen Anne's Resurrection: Journey V - The Abyss and the Kraken: 1° part Stories by Allyson Bird, Scott Nicholson, Danilo Arona, Alberto Custerlina, artwork by Daniele Serra in Italian in English -Queen Anne's Resurrection: Journey V - The Abyss and the Kraken: 2° part Stories by Tim Waggoner, Paolo Di Orazio, Daniele Bonfanti in Italian -Black Pills: Deep Black: Harry Clarke in Italian -Horror Lottery:…

HWA Sponsoring 5 Members to Attend Mort Castle’s Workshop at 2012 World Horror Convention

Mort Castle, editor of the acclaimed On Writing Horror, will be conducting writing workshops at the 2012 World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City , March 29 - April 1, 2012. The cost of the four-hour workshop is $50.00. The HWA Board is giving away five of these workshops at our cost. If you are interested, and we get more than five applications, they will given away in a random drawing. To qualify, you need to have registered for the WHC before 29 February, and of course, you need to be a member of the HWA. To register your interest…

The Annotated Sandman, Vol. 1 Edited by HWA Member Leslie S. Klinger

Editor: Leslie S. Klinger Edited by and with an introduction and notes by Leslie S. Klinger, the expert researcher and editor behind the Edgar®-winning New Annotated Sherlock Holmes and the critically acclaimed New Annotated Dracula, The Annotated Sandman is a panel-by-panel journey through every issue of The Sandman. Beginning with issues #1-#20, this volume provides commentary, historical and contemporary references, hidden meanings and more, presented side-by-side with the series art and text. Using scripts and hours of conversation with Gaiman, Klinger reveals fascinating details of The Sandman's hundreds of unforgettable characters and its place in literary history. Publisher: Vertigo (DC…

Samhain Publishing is Platinum Sponsor of the 25th Annual Bram Stoker Awards™

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce Samhain Publishing as the Platinum Sponsor for the 25th Annual Bram Stoker Awards Banquet. The Banquet will be held in conjunction with the World Horror Convention on 31 March 2012 with HWA’s Founders Joe and Karen Lansdale and Robert McCammon as Special Guests of Honor. Full details of both the Banquet and “Celebrate HWA Day” are at our dedicated website: http://www.stokers2012.org/. Don D'Auria, executive editor for Samhain Horror, will be representing the publisher at the World Horror Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah. “We're proud to support the Horror Writing community.…

Jeremy Wagner Sponsors the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award

The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce Jeremy Wagner as the sponsor for the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award. The Horror Writers Association (HWA), the horror genre’s peak body for writers and publishing professionals, will be giving the Bram Stoker Vampire Novel of the Century Award in conjunction with the Bram Stoker Family Estate and the Rosenbach Museum & Library. The award marks the centenary of the death in 1912 of Abraham (Bram) Stoker, the author of Dracula, and also celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the association. Full details of both the banquet and "Celebrate…

Theatre of Curious Acts by HWA Member Cate Gardner

Author: Cate Gardner Daniel Cole wants the world to end. Returned home from the Great War, his parents and brother in their graves, Daniel walks a ghost world. When players in a theatre show lure Daniel and his friends, fellow soldiers, into a surreal otherworld they find themselves trapped on an apocalyptic path. A pirate ship, helmed by Death, waits to ferry some of them to the end of the world. Already broken by war, these men are now the world's only hope in the greatest battle of all. "Gardner (Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits), a rising purveyor of high…

TED’S SCORE by HWA Member Daniel P. Coughlin

Author: Daniel P. Coughlin When beautiful Jules Benton, a seventeen year old senior, goes missing after the spring formal dance in the small town of Watertown, Wisconsin, her father, Richard Benton, becomes suspicious of Jules’ boyfriend, David Miller and his involvement with her disappearance. When Richard confirms his suspicions, the brutality of his capability consumes him and soon David will find out what that means. Unbeknownst to David or Richard, a serial killer by the name of Ted Olson has more to do with Jules’ disappearance than anyone might suspect. As Jules’ whereabouts unfold, the truth begins to bleed from…

New Volunteer Calendar Coordinator: HWA Member Jennifer Brozek

We have a new volunteer calendar coordinator who will be overseeing the upkeep of the HWA member calendar. This calendar will be visible to the public and can include events relative to the horror writers industry, to your career, etc. Some of the categories on the calendar will give you an idea of the kind of events you can submit: Conventions Readings Launch Events Workshop/seminar Open Writers Group (where anyone is welcome to attend) Only HWA members may submit events to the calendar. To submit an event to the calendar and to the various HWA publications, log in to the…

“The Fields” by HWA Member Ty Schwamberger

Author: Ty Schwamberger Billy Fletcher learned to farm the family’s tobacco fields – and beat slaves – by the hands of his father. Now, his father is dead, the slaves have long since been freed, and the once-lush fields are dying. Salvation by the name of Abraham knocks on the farmhouse door, bringing wild ideas. He can help Billy save the plantation and return the fields to their former glory…by raising his father’s slaves from the dead. Can the resurrected slaves breathe life back into the Fletcher farm? Having brought the slaves back from graves that his father sent them,…

Watcher: Book I of The Chosen by HWA Member Roh Morgon

Author: Roh Morgon Predator. Killer. Monster. The words echo in Sunny Martin s head each time she looks in the mirror. Since the night she was torn from her car and drained of her blood, Sunny s fear of the hungry beast within her is rivaled only by the fear of exposure. Her lonely struggle to survive on the edge of the human world leads Sunny to the mountain peaks of Colorado where she meets Nicolas, the enigmatic leader of a hidden society. Their passion, tainted by betrayal, violence, and murder, reveals a shocking truth behind Sunny's savage nature and…

Black Mercy Falls by HWA Members Christopher Fulbright & Angeline Hawkes

Authors: Christopher Fulbright & Angeline Hawkes The small Colorado town of Black Mercy Falls has a ghastly past. The massive waterfall above the town runs thick with black iron oxide, but there are hushed suggestions that something evil is responsible for the dark waters. Whispers of the locals connect a list of missing children with a diabolical tale of the town's founding father. Is the waterfall haunted? Or is the town cursed by something that stalks its children by night? Now the waterfall and the land it's on are bequeathed to Lance Evans by his estranged uncle. But when Lance…

“The Noctuary” by HWA Member Greg Chapman

Author: Greg Chapman Struggling writer Simon Ryan’s life has gone to Hell. Shadows are pouring into his reality and his words are not his own anymore. He has been chosen to become a scribe for some of the worst creatures of the Underworld–the ones whose sole purpose is to torment human souls–The Dark Muses. As Simon writes he falls deeper into the abyss and before long he has no sense of what is real. With the help of another scribe, old and mutilated, Simon comes to discover that his writing can mould people and places–that he can write things out…

IL POSTO NERO – November Links (HWA Italy)

NOVEMBER'S LINKS -Black Pills: Interview with Duo Diramazioni -1° part Italian version -The Arkana's Venice: Castello 985 by Lisa Mannetti Italian version -Black Pills: Interview with Duo Diramazioni - 2° part Italian version -Ten Knives Interviwe with Tim Lebbon English version | Italian version -Posto Nero's Web Magazine Maman Brigitte: Preview Italian version -Black Pills: Alfred Kubin's Nightmare Italian version -The Arkana's Ghosts: Lovesong by John Everson Italian version -Ten Knives Interview with Rio YouersEnglish version English version | Italian version -Posto Nero's Web Magazine Maman Brigitte - The Firts Issue - with works by John Everson, Lisa Mannetti, Rain…

“Dark Doorways: The Best of Post Mortem Press 2012” by HWA Member Jack Ketchum, Jonathan Maberry, F Paul Wilson, et al.

Author: Jack Ketchum, Jonathan Maberry, F Paul Wilson, et al. Exclusive to Post Mortem Press, an excerpt of Jack Ketchum & Lucky McKee's The Woman - Novel AND Screenplay. Jonathan Maberry's rare urban fantasy, "Like Part of the Family". F. Paul Wilson's genre-defining classic, "Soft." With nearly two dozen books in print during its first year, Post Mortem Press grew from a distraction against the worries of a corporate career gone awry to a successful independent publishing concern. We apparently did something unusual; we combined business acumen with a love of the written word and respect for the authors who…

THE WINSLOW INCIDENT by HWA Member Elizabeth Voss

Author: Elizabeth Voss Welcome to Winslow, where all anyone expects is another ordinary summer: tourists taking the ghost town tour, locals cooling off in Ruby Creek, the carnival in Prospect Park. Nothing unusual. That’s because residents here have always done well at keeping order, keeping secrets and keeping the past buried. Until now. First, the animals go strange. Then townsfolk begin losing their minds. And that’s when the ghosts come out to haunt. After the mysterious plague of madness strikes, young Hazel Winslow is stunned when the people she has known all her life become sudden strangers. Her brainsick father,…

Interview with New HWA Member Steve Alten … by Ron Breznay

Steve Alten is well-known for his bestseller MEG: A Novel of Deep Terror, several follow-up MEG books, and other novels of “natural” horror. He is the founder of Adopt-an-Author, a program designed to interest teenagers in reading. Steve grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and now calls southern Florida home. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education from Penn State, a Master’s degree in Sports Medicine from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate of Education from Temple University. While struggling to support his family of five, Steve decided to write MEG, the idea for which had been circling around…

2011 Bram Stoker Awards™ Ceremony On Youtube

The Horror Writers Association hold their Bram Stoker Award™ ceremony each year to honor outstanding achievements in writing. The awards were held in Long Island, NY. This video documents the event. It is part one of a four part series. The master of ceremonies for the event is Jeff Strand. >>> Go to the HWA Youtube collection.