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Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Tish Jackson

• February 9, 2024
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What inspired you to start writing? —Many many moons ago, I entered a contest in elementary school on why an amusement park should relocate to our town and won! I… Read more

Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview with Chanel Harry

• February 7, 2024
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What inspired you to start writing?  I have drawn inspiration from many facets of my life. I have always been reading horror novels and watching horror movies since I was… Read more

Black Heritage in Horror Month 2024: An Interview With Erin E. Adams

• February 5, 2024
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What inspired you to start writing? I’ve been writing since my childhood. There are still boxes of my old notebooks in my mother’s house. So writing has been a part… Read more

Indigenous Heritage in Horror Month: Interview with Stephen Graham Jones

• November 7, 2023
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Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of some thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are Don’t Fear… Read more

Latinx Heritage in Horror: Interview with Jonathan Reddoch

• September 22, 2023
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Jonathan Reddoch is co-owner of Collective Tales Publishing. He is a father, writer, editor, and publisher. He writes sci-fi, fantasy, romance, and especially horror. He has been working on his… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Marko Hautala

• August 25, 2023
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Marko Hautala is a Finnish horror writer whose novels and short stories have appeared in eight different languages. In 2020, his novelette “Pale Toes” (in Valancourt Book of World Horror… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Paolo Di Orazio

• August 24, 2023
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  Paolo Di Orazio has authored horror novels and comic books in Italian since 1987, and in English since 2015. He appeared in Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Kev Harrison

• August 22, 2023
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Kev Harrison is a writer of dark fiction and English language teacher from the UK, living and working in Lisbon, Portugal where he resides with his partner in crime Ana… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Johann Thorsson

• August 21, 2023
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Johann Thorsson is an Icelandic author whose short stories have appeared in publications both in Icelandic and English, such as Fireside Fiction and The Apex Book of World SF series. … Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Tonya Liburd

• August 19, 2023
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Tonya Liburd is an Apex Magazine Reader’s Choice 2022 Fiction Winner, and is a 2017 and 2018 Rhysling Award nominee. Her fiction is used in Nisi Shawl’s Writing the Other… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Marty Young

• August 18, 2023
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  Marty Young is a Bram Stoker nominated and multiple Australian Shadows award-winning writer and editor, and sometimes ghost hunter. His fiction and anthologies have been nominated for and won… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Steve Stred

• August 17, 2023
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A two-time Splatterpunk-nominated author, Steve Stred lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with his wife, son and their Staffy, Cocoa. His work has been described as haunting, bleak and is frequently… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Neil D’Silva

• August 15, 2023
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  Neil D’Silva is an Indian author known for his books such as Maya’s New Husband, Yakshini, and Playthings among others, all of which have hit the #1 spot on… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with J. Ashley Smith

• August 14, 2023
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J. Ashley Smith is a British-Australian author of dark fiction and co-host of the Let The Cat In podcast. His first book, The Attic Tragedy, won the Shirley Jackson Award.… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Santiago Eximeno

• August 13, 2023
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Santiago Eximeno (Madrid, Spain, 1973) is a Spanish-genre writer who has published several novellas and collections, mainly horror literature. His work has been translated to English, Japanese, French and Bulgarian.… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Flavius Ardelean-Bachmann

• August 11, 2023
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Flavius Ardelean-Bachmann is a Romanian award-winning writer of dark fiction, the author of nine novels and three short story collections for adults and children. His work has been translated into… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Daria Pietrzak

• August 10, 2023
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Daria Pietrzak is a writer of Polish origin, and has been settled in Spain since childhood. She has studied artistic photography with the intention of going into the world of… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Rosemary Thorne

• August 9, 2023
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Rosemary Thorne (she/her) is a bilingual Spanish writer, researcher, and translator living in Madrid, Spain. Born in 1968, she became an HWA member in 2019, choosing English as the most… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Kyla Lee Ward

• August 8, 2023
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Kyla Lee Ward is a Sydney-based creative whose work has garnered Australian Shadows and Aurealis awards. She has placed in the Rhyslings and received multiple Stoker and Ditmar nominations. Reviewers… Read more

World of Horror: Interview with Somto Ihezue

• August 7, 2023
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  Somto Ihezue is a Nigerian-Igbo editor, writer and filmmaker. He was awarded the 2021 African Youth Network Movement Fiction Prize. A British Science Fiction Award, Nommo Award and 2022… Read more