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Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Kevin M. Casin

• October 6, 2022
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Kevin (he/they) is a gay, Latine fiction writer, and cardiovascular research scientist. His fiction work appears (or forthcoming) in Idle Ink, Medusa Tales Magazine, Pyre Magazine, and more. He is… Read more

Halloween Beyond: Beyond Last Year’s Haunt by Kate Maruyama

• October 6, 2022
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Last year, I wrote a Halloween Haunts about my favorite Halloween traditions at my friend Miguel’s house, and how I missed it so much during the pandemic. Last winter, I… Read more

MHI: NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH “WHY WILL YOU SAY THAT I AM MAD?”

• October 6, 2022
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Trigger warning:
Contains frank discussion of substance abuse, treatment, and recovery.

NATIONAL RECOVERY MONTH
“WHY WILL YOU SAY THAT I AM MAD?”

BY MARK MATTHEWS Shake someone’s hand and recite… Read more

The Seers’ Table October 2022

• October 5, 2022
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Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee Halloween is the hardest working time for horror writers, but it’s also the most exciting. We have some good reading for… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Diana Rodriguez Wallach

• October 5, 2022
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Diana Rodriguez Wallach is a multi-published author of young adult novels. Her most recent, Small Town Monsters, is a YA Latinx horror novel that published in September 2021 through Random… Read more

Halloween Haunts: What if the Creepy Devil Mask at Your Halloween Party is not a Costume, but is Actually the Face of God? by Katherine Kerestman

• October 5, 2022
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An excerpt from Creepy Cat’s Macabre Travels: Prowling around Haunted Towers, Crumbling Castles, and Ghoulish Graveyards by Katherine Kerestman (WordCrafts Press, 2020), in which Creepy Cat visits the Yucatan: The… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with André Schuck

• October 4, 2022
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ADVERTISING More than 20 years in the advertising market, Andre has edited over 8,000 TV ads for major brands in Brazil, such as Nike, Unilever, Peugeot, Ford, and  Via Varejo..… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Bane Herbs in Fiction by Heddy Johannesen

• October 4, 2022
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Do you want to write about bane herbs in your stories? Let me navigate that dangerous territory with you. I will discuss how you can write about bane herbs in… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with K. Garcia Ley

• October 3, 2022
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K. Garcia Ley was born in the Dominican Republic, and moved from NYC, to northern New Jersey, to the Derwood, MD, graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree… Read more

Halloween Haunts: You Look Like Death by Kayla Woods

• October 3, 2022
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What is the most dangerous part of Halloween? The lore of Halloween attempts to instill in us the fear of razor blades in apples and needles in chocolate bars. We… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Greg McWhorter

• October 2, 2022
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Dr. Greg McWhorter is a Latinx (half-Colombian) writer who resides in Southern California. Since the 1980s, he has written for newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and film. McWhorter has been a… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Spooky Place by Stephen Mark Rainey

• October 2, 2022
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From the mid-1970s through the 1980s, the local chapter of the Jaycees in my Virginia hometown put on an annual haunted castle event, set in a massive, abandoned warehouse in… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Susan X. Bradley

• October 1, 2022
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Susan spent her childhood in South Texas, about ten miles from the U.S.-Mexican border. As a child, she spent the summers in Mexico with her grandparents and extended family. Inspired… Read more

Halloween Haunts: For the Love of a (Mostly) Black Cat by Sumiko Saulson

• October 1, 2022
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On October 31, 2009 something magical happened. That was the day that my then-fiance Gregory Hug and I adopted the approximately three-year-old predominantly black tuxedo cat we would come to… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2022 – It Begins

• September 30, 2022
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Welcome, one and all, to the Halloween Haunts for 2022. 31 days of essays, stories, images and ideas that show why the Halloween People are the best people. Visit each… Read more

MEET POET TIMOTHY P. FLYNN

• September 30, 2022
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The HWA has a rich tradition of dark poetry even before the late Peter Adam Salomon founded both the acclaimed Poetry Showcase series and National Dark Poetry Day, celebrated every… Read more

Nuts and Bolts: Interview with Aurora Gorealis

• September 30, 2022
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In the tradition of such sinister seductresses as Vampira and Elvira, Aurora Gorealis is a Baltimore-based horror host who weaves dark magic from a combination of campy movies, sassy attitude,… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Juan Manuel Pérez

• September 30, 2022
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Juan Manuel Pérez, a Mexican-American poet of Indigenous descent and the Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi, Texas (2019-2020), is the author of numerous poetry books including Another Menudo Sunday (2007),… Read more

MHI: Life Goes On The Way It Does — How Writing Is My Saviour

• September 29, 2022
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Trigger Warning: This article addresses mental health.

Life Goes On The Way It Does — How Writing Is My Saviour
By Claire Fitzpatrick

“It is as if my life were… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Robert Perez

• September 29, 2022
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Robert Perez sleeps at the bottom of the ocean. Urban legend whispers that the writer can be summoned into your dreams if you read his work to a jack-o-lantern. You… Read more