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How to Make a Monster By Janet Joyce Holden

• October 27, 2018
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I’ve always thought book-signing events should be cool and awesome, and with that in mind I always bring a few treats to give away. Buttons, flash fiction postcards, gift bags,… Read more

Interview Spotlight: Robert Payne Cabeen

• October 26, 2018
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Happy Friday All! Today marks the last interview spotlight as Halloween Haunts welcomes writer, artist and poet Robert Payne Cabeen. At Stokercon this past spring, Robert was the recipient of… Read more

Interview Spotlight: Aric Cushing

• October 25, 2018
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Welcome to another interview spotlight! Halloween Haunts chats with writer/actor Aric Cushing, who is also a screenwriter. He is the author of the award-winning YA book, Vampire Boy, and with… Read more

Interview Spotlight: K. A. Opperman

• October 24, 2018
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Happy Wednesday! Today Halloween Haunts features an interview spotlight with poet K. A. Opperman who penned The Crimson Tome (2015, Hippocampus Press) and who has a poem in the newly… Read more

Halloween Reanimated by Tori Eldridge

• October 23, 2018
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When I was a kid, the horror was mild, the giggling loud, and the worry left to a minimum. Gypsies and fairies roamed the neighborhood streets at night in unsupervised… Read more

Setting, The Other Character by Frazer Lee

• October 22, 2018
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Setting is such a vital component of any horror story, to the extent that the place in which the narrative is framed can become a central character. Take, for example,… Read more

68 Years of Halloween by Steve Rasnic Tem

• October 21, 2018
• 3 Comments

I believe I was seven years old the first time I went trick-or-treating. Before that I wasn’t much aware of the holiday, and I certainly didn’t connect it with anything… Read more

Interview Spotlight: Eric J. Guignard

• October 20, 2018
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Happy Saturday! Continuing the interview spotlight series, today Halloween Haunts chats with writer/editor Eric J. Guignard, whose debut collection, That Which Grows Wild: 16 Tales of Dark Fiction, was published… Read more

Zoinks! By David Ghilardi

• October 19, 2018
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Mitts was dressed as the Fonz, but now lolled at me like Droopy Dog.             I couldn’t figure why. We’d decided Halloween was done for us. We were hungrily stuffing our… Read more

Scary Out There with Dawn Kurtagich

• October 18, 2018
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Scary Out There recently interviewed Dawn Kurtagich, author of And the Trees Crept In and The Dead House. In this episode of the podcast, Dawn discusses the importance of horror… Read more

Ghost-Inspired Fiction by Loren Rhoads

• October 18, 2018
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Once I paid for the initial Haunted Mansion Writers Retreat in 2010, I worried what I’d do if the mansion really was haunted. What if things got really bad and… Read more

Interview Spotlight: Ashley Dioses

• October 17, 2018
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Happy Wednesday! Today Halloween Haunts features an interview spotlight with poet Ashley Dioses whose poetry has recently been featured in Weirdbook 41 from Wildside Press and The Audient Void: A… Read more

When I was a Witch By Paul Dale Anderson

• October 16, 2018
• 3 Comments

Among the many reasons I became a board-certified hypnotist, hypnosis instructor, and past-life regression therapist, was a life-long fascination with witches. I’d always suspected that my grandmother had been a… Read more

Gamers Guide to Halloween Video Games (That Actually Take Place on Halloween) By Nicholas Diak

• October 15, 2018
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Introduction Year after year, various online periodicals compile lists of the best video games to play during the month of October. Typically, these articles mostly adhere to listing universally renown… Read more

10 Things to Do on Halloween by Joanna Parypinski

• October 14, 2018
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It’s that time of year again when horror lovers have to decide what they will do to make the most of their precious Halloween time. Sure, there are tons of… Read more

The Challenges of Writing a Spook Show by David Lucarelli

• October 13, 2018
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Before there were TV horror hosts, haunted houses, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show, there were spook shows. Now a nearly forgotten bit of Americana, these once incredibly popular shows… Read more

Halloween in the Shadows by Amanda Trujillo

• October 12, 2018
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“My name is Victoria Winters and my journey is beginning…a journey that will take me to a strange, dark house, high atop Widows’ Hill.  A house called Collinwood…” So begins… Read more

THE DOCTOR OF HORROR IS IN: An interview with Master of Horror and poet Michael R. Collings

• October 11, 2018
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Too Close to Home by Marlena Frank

• October 11, 2018
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I love reading about haunted houses. The Haunting of Hill House is still one of my absolute favorite ghost stories. But I find it very difficult to write about them,… Read more

Interview Spotlight: Rhonda Jackson Joseph

• October 10, 2018
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Happy Wednesday! Welcome back to another interview spotlight, a new feature for this year’s Halloween Haunts. Today Halloween Haunts catches up with Dr. Rhonda Jackson Joseph who is a Texas-based… Read more