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Halloween Haunts: Warm Regards from the Meatgrinder by Mark Onspaugh

• October 22, 2014
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All good ghost storytellers know that, if you want to make your story truly effective, turn down the lights. But if you really want to crank up the gooseflesh, tell… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Where Horror Lies by Loren Rhoads

• October 21, 2014
• 9 Comments

This time of year, when the veil is thin, is a great time to make a pilgrimage to thank our forefathers in horror. Ray Bradbury, Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Memories by K.R. Morrison

• October 20, 2014
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I’ve just come in from pulling the cornstalks and hanging them to dry. And next week, the high school will have its annual Homecoming Parade down our street. What, you… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Horror Writers Association Goes to the Library

• October 19, 2014
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This year, for the first time, the Horror Writers Association invited libraries to get involved with Halloween Haunts and help promote the event to their patrons. Libraries were asked to… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Mass Grave by Colum Sanson-Regan

• October 19, 2014
• 14 Comments

The Irish countryside is alive with spirits. On Halloween, the Celtic New Year, the thin veil between this world and the next slips. For the Celts, the year was divided… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The House of Hallows Eve by Anthony Crowley

• October 18, 2014
• 3 Comments

The month of October has always made me feel comforted, I recall during my childhood years the local residents of Warley County in the West Midlands would prepare and speak… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Lost by Kenneth W.Cain

• October 17, 2014
• 10 Comments

My daughter told me she no longer wishes to go out on Halloween night. This worried me, the thought that our children would never know Halloween night the way prior… Read more

Halloween Haunts: I Don’t Get Zombies by Kristina Stancil

• October 16, 2014
• 7 Comments

Zombies. I don’t get the fascination. Aside from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, a few scenes of Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies, and a handful of children’s… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Enduring Popularity of Vampires by Michael J. McCann

• October 15, 2014
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There’s an ongoing fascination with vampires and the Undead, especially at Halloween. You can probably name a dozen novels and films/television series with vampire themes. Bram Stoker’s Dracula set forth… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Heady Ritual, Deviant Day by L. Andrew Cooper

• October 14, 2014
• 3 Comments

Not yet at the time of this writing, but on October 31, 2014—barring unforeseen circumstances, such as stepping into an open hole in the sidewalk and being impaled on the… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Back In My Day… by Armand Rosamilia

• October 13, 2014
• 10 Comments

I’ll be 45 in November but some days I feel much older. I find myself talking about the Good Old Days and when I was a kid and saying things… Read more

Halloween Haunts: My Father’s Holiday by Jay Wilburn

• October 12, 2014
• 4 Comments

Halloween is such an oddly pseudo-religious, family friendly, mildly inappropriate for children, cross generational, community oriented, unrecognized national holiday. It has all the bizarre mixtures of a surreal story element.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Darkness by J. Lincoln Fenn

• October 11, 2014
• 2 Comments

It sounds corny, cliché, but the truth is that when I saw my mother’s body in the coffin at the wake, she looked…good. Like she was taking a well-deserved nap.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Highwayman By David B. Riley

• October 10, 2014
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One of the first stories I ever had published is “The Highwayman.” I’ve actually managed to get it reprinted some 10 times over the years at various anthologies and such.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Last Night of October by Marge Simon

• October 9, 2014
• 9 Comments

The Last Night of October   The last night of October is one of crickets, loud and soft, blending with a yellow gray sky, a chill wind rising,   while… Read more

Stephen King’s HorrorSelfie!

• October 8, 2014
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Visit horrorselfies.com to upload your own Horror Selfie and to see selfies from Stephen King, Lisa Tuttle, Peter Straub, Ellen Datlow, Aaron Sterns, and Ramsey Campbell among many others! And,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween, Horror, and Death by Leigh M. Lane

• October 8, 2014
• 3 Comments

The best Halloween I ever had occurred a little over a decade ago. I was living with my sisters in a large house just outside of Las Vegas, and we’d… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Monster Squad: An Appreciation by Patty Templeton

• October 7, 2014
• 10 Comments

Halloween, to me, is about watching movies. Yeah, yeah, costumes and candy, too, but it’s mostly about the MOVIES. A hella fun flick I revisit nearly every Halloween is The… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year by Jim Pyre

• October 6, 2014
• 6 Comments

I’ve loved Halloween. It seems passé I should, but before I read my first bit of Lovecraft. I was crazy for the holiday. It was different, not the same tick-tock… Read more

Charles Day Retires as Mentor Program Chair, Replaced by Michael Knost

• October 6, 2014
• 1 Comment

As previously announced Charles Day is stepping down as HWA’s Mentor Program Chair after three years to concentrate on his roles as Co-Chair of HWA’s New York/Long Island Chapter and… Read more