Video Interview with Don D’Auria

Video Interview with Don D’Auria

The HWA interviews Bram Stoker Award nominee Don D'Auria of Samhain Publishing. Don D’Auria has worked in publishing for twenty-five years, most recently as executive editor at Leisure Books, where for fifteen years he directed their horror line. Born and raised in suburban New Jersey, he was the quintessential horror kid, growing up on a steady diet of TV’s Chiller Theater on Friday nights, Creature Features on Saturday nights, and horror novels and Famous Monsters magazine the rest of the time. After earning a master’s degree in English from Columbia University, he dove into publishing, where he’s been lucky enough…

Halloween All Year Long

by Don D’Auria Halloween was always a very special holiday for me when I was a kid. Yeah, I liked the trick or treating and the candy, but that wasn’t what made it special. That was just the icing on the cake. For me, Halloween wasn’t about being able to do something I couldn’t do the rest of the year. I grew up in the 1960s and ‘70s, in the middle of the monster craze. So that meant, even without Halloween, I spent my time watching horror movies, sitcoms, anthology shows and even cartoons on TV, reading horror stories, magazines…