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Halloween Haunts: The Age of Halloween By Helen Marshall

• October 27, 2012
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Halloween has always been one of my favourite holidays. This is an oddity because, growing up, I was a particularly frightened child: the kind of kid who clings to cotton… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Unknown by Max Booth III

• October 26, 2012
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Quick, what is more scary: Freddy Krueger’s burnt, ugly face, or the sound of his knives scrapping against a boiler room wall? Why is it that we are still obsessed… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Devil’s Path by Douglas Wynne

• October 26, 2012
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I grew up in a pretty typical suburban town on Long Island. We didn’t have any haunted houses or creepy graveyards in Smithtown—you had to drive all the way to… Read more

Halloween Haunts: My First Horror Book by Teresa Lo

• October 25, 2012
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I grew up a shy, homely nerd in a small town in Kansas. There wasn’t a ton of stuff for me to do in my community and my strict Chinese… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Slice of the Southeast Asian Underworld and Spirits of Laos by Bryan Thao Worra

• October 24, 2012
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“When the water rises, the fish eat the ants; when the water falls, the ants eat the fish.”- Traditional Lao Proverb Laos isn’t the first place people think of when… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Those Damn Horror People by Eric Miller

• October 24, 2012
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I’ve been immersed in the horror world since I was a child, from sneaking into movies I was way too young to watch, to staying up on Saturday nights and… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Beneath the Veil of Flesh and Blood by Greg Chapman

• October 23, 2012
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Being from Australia, a land where celebrations centre more on sport than the change of seasons, I never had the pleasure of indulging in trick or treating. I knew of… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Every Day Is Halloween by Peter Salomon

• October 23, 2012
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Little known fact: my due date was Oct. 31, 1967. Unfortunately, I ended up being three days late so even though I do not have a Halloween birthday, I was… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with John Skipp

• October 22, 2012
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John Skipp is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in an Anthology for Demons: Encounters with the Devil and his Minions, Fallen Angels and the… Read more

Halloween Haunts: “The Board” Spoils the Fun by George Wilhite

• October 22, 2012
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That year’s Halloween party was a tremendous success — drinks flowed and the mix tapes pounded our favorite tracks by the giants of eighties rock and the more obscure artists… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Creating Halloween by Norman Prentiss

• October 21, 2012
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Recently I was invited to contribute a story to a project sponsored by Cemetery Dance Publications—a series of eBook singles focusing on Halloween. A “theme” invitation is always fun, since… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Ten Movies That Should Always Haunt Your TV On Halloween by Benjamin Kane Ethridge

• October 21, 2012
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1. Young Frankenstein From the lovely violin score, to the great performances, to the authentic sets, to one of the single best comedy dance numbers I’ve ever seen, this movie… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Peculiar Genius–The Ghost Stories of M.R. James by Brad C. Hodson

• October 20, 2012
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“The peculiar genius of M. R. James, and his greatest power, lies in the convincing evocation of weird, malignant and preternatural phenomenon… It is safe to say that few writers,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Samhain Stories by Frazer Lee

• October 20, 2012
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Samhain Publishing launched its Horror line this time last year, and was proud Platinum Sponsor of the Bram Stoker Awards® in Salt Lake City. Readers visiting the website http://www.samhainhorror.com will… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Lucero Haunt by Brick Marlin

• October 19, 2012
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Twisting the doorknob and carefully peeking behind a few doors in my mind (As a writer, I have learned the hard way by “things” jumping out at me in the… Read more

Halloween Haunts: How the Application of Corn Starch Prepared Me for Novel-Writing by David Annandale

• October 19, 2012
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Halloween taught me the virtue of suffering for one’s art. Right. That sounds insufferably pretentious. That’s because it is. But there is a grain of pragmatic truth I’d like to… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Fight for Your Right to Halloween by Jennifer Harlow

• October 18, 2012
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As I’m sure all of my fellow HWA members can claim, Halloween is my favorite holiday. Horror movies on every channel, pumpkin seeds roasting in the oven, slutty cats and… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Specialty Press Award Spotlight–Derrick Hussey and Hippocampus Press

• October 17, 2012
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Derrick Hussey and Hippocampus Press received the 2011 HWA Specialty Press of the Year Award. 1. How would you describe Hippocampus Press? We are a small press specializing in the… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Three Ways Anyone Can Have an Awesome Halloween by Lincoln Crisler

• October 16, 2012
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Halloween can be a galvanizing time of year for some. People who don’t go to church except maybe on Christmas and Easter suddenly RISE UP! against the blasphemous evil nature… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Fort Fear–Writing the Origin Story for a Haunted Attraction by Adrian Ludens

• October 16, 2012
• 4 Comments

“We want to build a haunted attraction and we’d like you to write a back story for it.” An origin story for a spook house? What a novel idea! More… Read more