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Midnight Echo Issue 9 by HWA Member Geoff Brown

• October 16, 2013
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Editor: Geoff Brown Midnight Echo Issue 9 features more than 100 pages of fiction, art, interviews, book releases, and more! All based on myths and legends, including a novella by… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween—What First Comes to Your Mind at the Thought? by John G. Rees

• October 16, 2013
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Summer’s bright days are still upon us: the joys and laughter stronger, louder, as if the earth’s bounties now ready for harvest rail us with delight. As the days begin… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Halloween as a Kid by Michael J. McCann

• October 16, 2013
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When I was a kid, the excitement leading up to Halloween night was second only to that of Christmas Eve. The leaves had fallen and made a wonderful noise when… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with Rocky Wood

• October 15, 2013
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Rocky Wood is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel for Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times co-written with Lisa… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: A Feast of Fear by Frazer Lee

• October 15, 2013
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Halloween is hungry, thirsty work. All those seasonal book signings and live readings can really take it out of you, not to mention the effort it requires to fish all… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: ‘Tis the Season by Ed Erdelac

• October 14, 2013
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  The Halloween season is upon us, when the trees shed their leaves like scraps of yellow-orange construction paper that shuffle beneath your feet, every pumpkin spreads a butter-yellow grin,… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Comment Ça? Rencontrez Dracula en Français pour (Dracula: Entre l’Amor et la Morte)—A Film Review by James Dorr

• October 13, 2013
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Dracula in French?  And Canadian French to boot?  And with songs!  Yes, all that and more is available to those who enjoy a delightful shiver on seeing a bat’s silhouette… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Stoker Spotlight on Marge Simon

• October 12, 2013
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Marge Simon is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Poetry for Vampires, Zombies, and Wanton Souls.  1. How would you describe Vampires, Zombies, and Wanton… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Night Terrors by Heather L Reid

• October 12, 2013
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Nightmares are the stuff of dreams­­-the subtle edge of darkness that creeps across the sleeping mind, evoking inner demons to dance macabre behind the shuttered windows of the soul. I… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Beware of the Jersey Devil by Carol MacAllister

• October 11, 2013
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October 31st – Halloween night: A lonely drifter wanders on a dark sandy road through the scrubby New Jersey Pine Barrens. Clouds mask the full October moon. A screech is… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Stoker Spotlight on Lucy Snyder

• October 10, 2013
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Lucy Snyder is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Short Fiction for her story “Magdala Amygdala.” 1. How would you describe “Magdala Amygdala”?
I’d describe… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Why I Write Horror by Carl Alves

• October 10, 2013
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I read pretty much every genre with the exception of Romance and Westerns. Nothing against them, just not my cup of tea. Although there are many things I find enjoyable… Read more

An Interview with Amber Benson (Part 2)

• October 10, 2013
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By JG Faherty Read Part 1 Last month, actress and author Amber Benson talked to us about YA horror, literacy, her love of gory books and movies, and her writing… Read more

An Interview with Richard Christy (Part 2)

• October 10, 2013
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by JG Faherty, for the Horror Writers Association Newsletter Read Part 1 Last month metal drummer extraordinaire and horror fanatic Richard Christy and I spoke about his love of horror… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Halloween Hootenanny! By Greg McWhorter

• October 9, 2013
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Enter the Crypt of Forgotten Screamers! WwwwAAaaaRRrrrrGGgghhHHHh!!!!! It’s Halloween time again and that means you must have something appropriate spinning on the turntable, ‘natch. I don’t know about you, but… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Stoker Spotlight on Gene O’Neill

• October 8, 2013
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Gene O’Neill is the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in Long Fiction for his book The Blue Heron. 1. How would you describe The Blue Heron?… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Halloween in the Hudson Valley by JG Faherty

• October 7, 2013
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Halloween has always held a special place in my heart, even before I ever thought about becoming a horror and science fiction writer. While there is never one single reason… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Candy Corn Memories by Amy Grech

• October 7, 2013
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Halloween has always been my favorite holiday. Growing up, I relished Halloween’s approach even more than Christmas. Santa had nothing on Halloween with Jack o‘Lanterns, costumes and candy… Every year… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: More Than Just Candy by David B. Riley

• October 6, 2013
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One of my most vivid childhood memories was of a haunted house in the neighborhood when I was young. It was the artificial variety. The guys who ran it where… Read more

Halloween Haunts 2013: Why Do You Write That Stuff? by Thomas Smith

• October 5, 2013
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Why do we do it? Why do folks like Mike Dellosso, Brian Keene, Elizabeth Massie, Kevin Lucia, me, and any number of other writers look at the dark side of… Read more