Tag archive: Halloween Haunts 2012 Archives - Horror Writers Association [ 49 ]

Halloween Haunts: The House on Brookhaven Road by Hugh Sterbakov

• October 31, 2012
• 4 Comments

The following is a true story… even the names haven’t been changed. It was the last week of autumn in West Philadelphia, and the wet, warm smell of falling leaves… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Stonehenge–Up Close and Personal by Thomas Morrissey

• October 31, 2012
• 3 Comments

My favorite Halloween (so far) was the one I spent in England. I was researching a novel, and my research took me all over the United Kingdom, including to Northern… Read more

Halloween Haunts: My Troubled Halloween Adventures by Charles Day

• October 30, 2012
• 10 Comments

As a child, I’ve always loved Halloween, including the night before. The cool crisp autumn winds howling outside. The brisk air through my open windows. The colors of the changing… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Joys of Halloween and Nightmares by Nancy O. Greene

• October 30, 2012
• 3 Comments

Halloween, and cemeteries, and nightmares, and zombies! Oh, my! For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a fan of all of the above. Well, maybe not always the… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Heroes and Monsters by Patrick Thomas

• October 29, 2012
• 2 Comments

The monsters come out at Halloween. It was the time when they didn’t have to hide and the adults could see them and not realize what they were. Some kids… Read more

Halloween Haunts: HWA & BookExpo America 2012 by Leland Pitts-Gonzalez

• October 29, 2012
• 3 Comments

I arrived at the Javits Center in New York City for the BookExpo—an oversized, rolling suitcase in hand to tote back all of those advanced copies of my novel that… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with Joe McKinney

• October 28, 2012
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Joe McKinney is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Novel for Flesh Eaters. 1. How would you describe Flesh Eaters? Flesh Eaters is… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Setting the Record Straight–The Horror Writer as Truth-Seeker by David Sakmyster

• October 28, 2012
• 4 Comments

Sometimes horror writers have big egos. It goes with the territory: we are entrusted with the godlike power to instill fear, to make mere mortals quake with terror, or at… Read more

Halloween Haunts: In a Gulf Coast Graveyard by James Kendley

• October 27, 2012
• 4 Comments

I found something in a cemetery last Halloween season. I want to tell you what it is. You know I want to, but we must stroll through this cemetery first.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Age of Halloween By Helen Marshall

• October 27, 2012
• 4 Comments

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
• 6 Comments

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
• 3 Comments

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
• 4 Comments

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
• 2 Comments

“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
• 1 Comment

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
• 5 Comments

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
• 2 Comments

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
• 2 Comments

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
• 1 Comment

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
• 2 Comments

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