“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.

Italian Horror Web Magazine “Maman Brigitte” Available

From Il Posto Nero, the Italian HWA Blog, the new Web Magazine Maman Brigitte is available, downloadable in free pdf format, with works by John Everson, Lisa Mannetti, Rain Graves, Lisa Morton, Corrine De Winter, an interview with Nate Kenyon, and many works by Italian Horror Writers and others contents. All content is in Italian. Check it out!

HWA Halloween Haunts: Giveaway Recipients

Many thanks to all those readers who supported the HWA's first Halloween Haunts blog event! We appreciate you stopping by to read the posts and excerpts and enter for book giveaways. We hope you had a Happy Halloween and enjoyed some good, scary reading. Below is a list of those lucky readers who received the various items given away--something to give them chills until next Halloween! Black and Orange by Benjamin K. Ethridge, Shane McKenzie Blanket of White by Amy Grech, Jack Staynes Blind Hunger by Araminta Star Matthews, Jessica Roberts Carnival of Fear by JG Faherty, Gene Stewart Ghosts…

HELP! WANTED TALES OF ON-THE-JOB TERROR Edited by HWA Member Peter Giglio

Editor: Peter Giglio Wake up! You don’t want to be late. Shower and shave, you want to look your best. Drink coffee, scramble eggs, you’ll need your energy. Today’s a big day…even if you don’t know why. Within these pages reside 25 terrifying visions from the finest talents in dark fiction. From a call center floor to and undertaker’s slab, a chain bookstore to a dark Christmas with border patrol agents, HELP! WANTED: Tales of On-the-Job Terror removes the veils that protect your psyche, beckoning you into nightmare worlds that will leave your screaming…for more! TABLE OF CONTENTS “The Chapel…

OUTER DARKNESS by HWA Member Bart Brevik

Author: Bart Brevik What would you do if your family was targeted for destruction by a violent Satanic cult? That’s the position that Jim DiMario finds himself in – but has he found out too late? Jim feels the comfortable predictability of his day-to-day routine begin to unravel when he investigates a series of bizarre animal mutilations that have recently occurred in his normally quiet, upscale community. Seemingly by chance, he meets two strangers in his quest for the truth – a sheriff’s deputy, and a TV news reporter, each of whom have their own reasons to investigate the grisly…

THE ARMAGEDDON CHORD by HWA Member JEREMY WAGNER

Author: Jeremy Wagner “The music was to be a battle cry heard around the world and throughout Heaven and Hell. It would summon and release Sethis and call out his dark legions to destroy all those who had light in their hearts…” Deep beneath the Egyptian sands, an ancient and evil song written in hieroglyphics is discovered in the long lost and buried pyramid of the demonic pharaoh, Aknaseth. It is written, that if this song is performed for the world to hear, it will unleash the Apocalypse upon the world of man…Satan will reign and grant immortality to the…

“Grave Revelations” by HWA Member Kenneth W. Cain

Author: Kenneth W. Cain In this sequel to These Trespasses, Marty's brother returns wanting his brother by his side one way or another. In a new post-apocalyptic world people struggle to rebuild. With civilization only just starting to regain momentum an old threat returns. Things have changed. People have changed. The resolve remains the same. Marty and his friends will not stop until this alien force is defeated. Then again, neither will this intrusion end without putting up a fight of its own. Brother to brother, husband to wife, child to mother, an ending will result from these grave revelations.

IL POSTO NERO – September and October Links (HWA Italy)

SEPTEMBER'S LINKS Autopsies: Review of A ClockWork Orange by Antony Burgess edited by Mauro Marcialis only Italian version link -Preview of Maman Brigitte, the new Posto Nero’s Web Magazine With stories by John Everson, Lisa Mannetti, Claudio Vergnani, a poem by Corrine De Winter, cover by Daniele Serra Italian version link -Black Pills: The boundaries between life and death: Zdzislaw Beksinski Italian version link -Presentation of Arkana – Nightmare Tales, the Posto Nero’s horror collection eBook edited by Alessandro Manzetti and Daniele Bonfanti Intro by Rocky Wood, stories by Jack Ketchum, Lisa Mannetti, John Everson, Lisa Morton, Daniel Keohane, Michael…

EYES TO SEE by HWA Member Joseph Nassise

Author: Joseph Nassise In an urban fantasy that charts daring new territory in the field, Jeremiah Hunt has been broken by a malevolent force that has taken his young daughter and everything else of value in his life: his marriage, his career, his reputation. Desperate to reclaim what he has lost, Hunt finally turns to the supernatural for justice. Abandoning all hope for a normal life, he enters the world of ghosts and even more dangerous entities from beyond the grave. Sacrificing his normal sight so that he can see the souls of the dead and the powers that stalk…

Halloween Treat Giveaway: B&N Nook Loaded with Horror Novels

TODAY'S GIVEAWAY: Courtesy of Christopher C. Payne and Journalstone Publishing, we are giving away a free Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader, preloaded with selected horror novels published by Journalstone Publishing. To enter, post in the comments section below or e-mail memoutreach@horror.org. A winner will be chosen at random. Happy Halloween! Novels to be included: Shaman's Blood by Anne C. Petty That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley The Demon of Renaissance Drive by Elizabeth Reuter Jokers Club by Gregory Bastianelli Ghosts of Coronado Bay by JG Faherty Reign of a Nightmare Prince by Mike Phillips Imperial Hostage by Phil…

Space Invaders Halloween

by Weston Ochse Hackettstown, New Jersey—1972. The small town of Hackettstown was right out of a Bradbury story back in 1972. It was the picturesque ideal and very well could have been a stand in for Green Town, Illinois, the settings for both Dandelion Wine and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Green Town was a fictional town and was probably meant as Bradbury’s replacement for his own hometown of Waukegan. But really, it could be a replacement for any small American town. Green grass, tall trees, old homes, cracked and broken sidewalks, central squares and parks with a bandstand. Kids…

Horror: The Finest Emotion

by Rocky Wood, HWA President Well, here we are—nearly at Halloween. Thanks to those of you who’ve been following HWA’s “Halloween Haunts” since October 1 and those who joined later. If you only got on board today, lucky you—you have a mass of wonderful material from some of the world’s best horror writers here that you can go back and read! Congratulations to the winners of the various prizes offered and thanks go to those who offered them. If you’re new to the Horror Writers Association this month we’ve enjoyed your company but don’t go away, as we have great…

Stoker Spotlight: 13 Questions with Joe R. Lansdale, author of “The Folding Man”

Joe R. Lansdale received the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction. He is the author of more than a dozen novels, including Savage Season, Devil Red, The Drive-In, Dead in the West, The Night Runners, The Bottoms, and Under the Warrior Sun. He is also the author of many short stories and collections, including By Bizarre Hands, Writer of the Purple Rage, God of the Razor and Other Stories, and Deadman’s Road, as well as numerous comics and graphic novels, such as Jonah Hex: Two Gun Mojo and Blood and Shadows. Several of his stories have…

HOWLing for HWA

by Nancy Holder I am one of HWA’s original members. I joined H.O.W.L. (the Horror and Occult Writers League.) I also served as a trustee in the early years, before we changed our name again to the Horror Writers Association. Here’s an excerpt from my new young adult werewolf novel, Unleashed. It will come out on November 22 from Delacorte. I hope you enjoy it! Excerpt from Unleashed This can’t be happening, Katelyn thought. Her grandfather handed her the keys to his front door then went to retrieve her suitcase. The sun had begun to set, and she barely took…