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Veterans in Horror: Interview with Michael Arnzen

• November 1, 2022
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Michael Arnzen holds four Bram Stoker Awards and an International Horror Guild Award for his disturbing (and often funny) fiction, poetry and literary experiments. His books include Grave Markings, Play… Read more

CASSONDRA WINDWALKER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

• November 1, 2022
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Cassondra Windwalker reads a haunting poem “Conflagration,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better… Read more

HWA ANNOUNCES SUMMER SCARES READING PROGRAM 2023 Spokesperson and Timeline

• October 31, 2022
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The Horror Writers Association (HWA), in partnership with United for Libraries, Book Riot, and Booklist, is proud to announce the fifth annual Summer Scares Reading Program. Summer Scares is a… Read more

M LOPES da SILVA READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

• October 31, 2022
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M Lopes da Silva reads a frighteningly approriate poem “there’s a haunted pornographic magazine in the woods,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven’t… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Real Horror by Brian W. Matthews

• October 30, 2022
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In a few weeks, I will begin my sixtieth journey around the sun. Over those years, Halloween has changed for me. The meaning. How I enjoy it. With whom I… Read more

MEGHAN ARCURI READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

• October 30, 2022
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Meghan Arcuri reads her heartbreaking and poignant poem “How Do I Tell Her?,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Do Ghosts Respect International Borders? by Geneve Flynn

• October 29, 2022
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To an Asian Australian, Halloween is a delightful, albeit slightly bewildering, phenomenon. It isn’t widely celebrated in Malaysia (where I spent my early childhood) and is really only just starting… Read more

TEEL JAMES GLENN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

• October 29, 2022
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A chilling reading of “Homebound” by Teel James Glenn from the recently released HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s just one click away. Better… Read more

Halloween Haunts: That Halloween Feeling by Jo Kaplan

• October 28, 2022
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“Why do you write horror?” they ask (whoever they are—generally people who avoid horror at all costs, who don’t like to be scared). I’m never sure how to answer. Despite… Read more

GENEVE FLYNN READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

• October 28, 2022
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Geneve Flynn gives a wonderful reading of her poem “spoon against bone,” one of the featured poems in HWA Showcase volume IX. If you haven’t purchased your copy yet, it’s… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Fiend is Born by Gaby Triana

• October 27, 2022
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As a child born to Cuban exiles in 1971, Halloween wasn’t a major holiday in our household for a while, since it wasn’t celebrated in Cuba. Once my parents recognized… Read more

GORDON LINZNER READS FROM POETRY SHOWCASE IX

• October 27, 2022
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To kick of the HWA Poetry Showcase readings we have a genuine New Yorker! Gordon Linzner will be reading his series of haiku “Triptych of Terror.” If you haven’t purchased… Read more

Halloween Haunts: We’re Still Playing, Forever and Ever in 2015 by Sarah Read

• October 26, 2022
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No one celebrates Halloween better than the Halloween People, and while every Halloween has been special in some way or another, the most memorable one, for me, was in 2015.… Read more

POETRY SHOWCASE HISTORY FROM AN EARLY ADOPTER

• October 26, 2022
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by Angela Yuriko Smith Were it not for Peter Adam Salomon and the HWA Showcase series he started, I might not be still poeting today. Our community is particularly kind… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Horror Hosts by David Sharp

• October 25, 2022
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One of my favorite parts of the Halloween season is watching horror films. Ever since I was a kid in the 80s scouring Fangoria magazine for October releases to find… Read more

Halloween Haunts: How writing horror is like dressing up for Halloween by Carol Gyzander

• October 24, 2022
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As many folks in the United States prepare for upcoming Halloween celebrations by choosing costumes—for themselves or perhaps for their children to go trick-or-treating—it’s intriguing to think about how dressing… Read more

STEPHANIE M. WYTOVICH ON POETRY IN THE DARK

• October 24, 2022
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by Angela Yuriko Smith Today I’d like to welcome Stephanie M. Wytovich to the HWA Poetry Blog with an interview about her own work and Writing Poetry in the Dark,… Read more

ACTING WITH MALICE: Scare Techniques From Scare Actors

• October 23, 2022
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By Tom Joyce
The setting sun cast a blood-red glow on the assembly of horrors. Maniacal clowns. Cleaver-toting cannibals. Wrathful ghosts. All gathered in a field, waiting for their victims.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: It’s Always Halloween in the Library by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.

• October 23, 2022
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A lifelong “Halloween People” myself, I connect Halloween with libraries, and do so for several reasons.  Each year I have the great pleasure of writing and directing a Halloween Haunt… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Beyond the Monster Mash: Five Spooky, Literary Bangers for Your Next House Party! By Brian Asman

• October 22, 2022
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“The Children of the Night—what music they make!” Why hello there, Halloween people. Brian Asman here, author of the viral hit Man, Fuck This House and the upcoming Christmas horror… Read more