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Halloween Haunts: Sounds of the Season by J. Rocky Colavito

• October 21, 2022
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The challenge flitted across my Facebook feed this morning, and it reminded me that it’s time to start planning Halloween assignments for my three classes. Since the students are just… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Good Questions: Shared Spaces of Horror and Religion by Brandon R. Grafius

• October 20, 2022
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I was too young to remember. But as the story’s been retold in family lore, it goes something like this: My family used to go out for fast-food most Sundays… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Ghost with One Bloody Finger by Naching T. Kassa

• October 19, 2022
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When I was a kid in the 1980s, long before the advent of R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps, my friends and family told scary stories with a funny twist. Some were… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Transformations by Adele Gardner

• October 18, 2022
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From my very first Halloween, I learned how important sewing is to that special night. My mother wore an elaborate clown costume, complete with a separate neck ruffle with ringing… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Transcending Tropes by Kodie Van Dusen

• October 17, 2022
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To say that I never saw myself writing horror is an understatement. My earliest memory of horror was at my best friend’s birthday when we were children. I don’t remember… Read more

Halloween Haunts: October Baby by Melissa Pleckham

• October 16, 2022
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Like many people born in October — all of us beauty-loving Libras, all of those mysterious, sexy Scorpios — I grew up thinking that Halloween was my special holiday. Like… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Taste of Halloween Beyond – The Talking-board by Lisa Morton

• October 15, 2022
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I’ve written a lot of Halloween fiction, and I do mean A LOT. As in, I’ve already had one entire collection of just Halloween short stories and novellas – The… Read more

Halloween Haunts: THAT’S (NOT) THE SPIRIT! by Evan Baughfman

• October 14, 2022
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When our son was not-quite-two, my wife and I—perhaps irresponsibly—took him into a Spirit Halloween store, scarring the kid for years. The demon-possessed animatronics and creepy-crawly creatures proved to be… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Comforting Visitations by Damian Serbu

• October 13, 2022
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For some odd reason, a Halloween memory from high school popped into my head the other day. I’m not one to love going back to immerse myself in high school… Read more

MHI: Why Mental Health representation in SFFH matters

• October 13, 2022
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Trigger Warning: This article addresses mental health.

Why Mental Health representation in SFFH matters
By Penny Jones

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating the Fantasycon 2022 panel on mental… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Believing Myself to be a Writer by John James Lane

• October 12, 2022
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I always wanted to be a writer, but deep inside for most of my life, I was constantly in a struggle with my own demons. Demons of being “less than”.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Like All That Lives, We Eat Death: The TTRPG by Emily Flummox

• October 11, 2022
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I came home for the first time to celebrate Samhain, one week after someone died there, on that land.   If I were ever to write a tabletop role-playing game… Read more

The HWA Honors Indigenous Peoples Day

• October 10, 2022
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Monday, October 10 is Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2022 in United States. Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a holiday that celebrates and honors Native American peoples and commemorates their histories and cultures.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Of Horror, Hope, and Halloween by Dave Jeffery and Lee Murray

• October 10, 2022
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There is nothing that says ‘horror’ more than the Halloween holidays. Ask any fan of all things macabre for their favourite time of year and their obvious response is October,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Hauntingly Normal by Susan Schwartz

• October 9, 2022
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Writing and researching the paranormal always seemed natural to me after growing up in a haunted house. We moved after the previous owner had passed away. She was a sweet… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Karlo Yeager Rodriguez

• October 8, 2022
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Karlo Yeager Rodriguez is from the enchanted isle of Puerto Rico, but moved to Balitmore, Maryland some years ago. He lives there with his partner and one very odd dog.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Beheading Delight by Rosemary Thorne

• October 8, 2022
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I love to time-travel to be beheaded: I use the thin veils that Halloween procures for the living and the dead to go through the portals after pronouncing the right… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Ángel Isián

• October 7, 2022
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Ángel Isián is the Puerto Rican author of El cuco te va a comer (The Cuco’s going to eat you, 2020), a collection of horror short stories that received an… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Urban Legend: The Bunnyman by Pamela K. Kinney

• October 7, 2022
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Everyone knows the urban legends of the man with the hook in Lover’s Lane, the Halloween campus murder, and the babysitter story. Still here in Virginia, we have the Bunnyman.… Read more

CELEBRATING DARK POETRY DAY

• October 7, 2022
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Edgar Allen Poe’s ink ceased to flow 174 years ago today and dark poets everywhere honor his legacy on this National Day of Recognition. October 7, the day Edgar Allan… Read more