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

• October 21, 2012
• 6 Comments

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
• 8 Comments

“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
• 2 Comments

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
• 2 Comments

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
• 1 Comment

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
• 1 Comment

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
• 3 Comments

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

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Mom by Nancy Holder

• October 15, 2012
• 9 Comments

For many years, I dreamed of having a daughter, but no daughter came. When Belle finally showed up, I couldn’t imagine anything better—except that she missed being born on Halloween… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Could Vampires Be Real? by Carole Jahme

• October 15, 2012
• 2 Comments

Dr Paul D Stewart (http://www.paul-d-stewart.co.uk) is a zoologist and multi award-winning wildlife filmmaker. After reading the new Darwinian vampire novel Worth Their Weight in Blood, by Carole Jahme, Stewart emailed,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Famous Monster (Hunters) of Filmland (and Beyond) by Ed Erdelac

• October 14, 2012
• 15 Comments

The leaves yellow up and the pumpkins sprout faces, the monster movie marathons begin and the spooky books get their own prominent section up front in the library, where they’ll… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with Linda Addison

• October 13, 2012
• 6 Comments

Linda Addison is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Poetry for How to Recognize a Demon Has Become Your Friend. 1. How would you… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Kiwi Halloween by Marty Young

• October 12, 2012
• 3 Comments

Growing up in Hastings, New Zealand, we never really got to enjoy Halloween. It existed—for me, anyway—as some kind of weird holiday I got to see on TV and in… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Gift of Fear by Rebecca Cantrell aka Bekka Black

• October 12, 2012
• 7 Comments

Halloween is about scaring the crap out of kids and then giving them sugar. Tricks. Treats. Making little lions and Spidermen and pirates and kittens happy while giving them nightmares.… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Dead Mann Talking by Stefan Petrucha

• October 11, 2012
• 1 Comment

In an initial draft of the first book of my zombie detective series, Dead Mann Walking, a group of peacefully protesting undead, pushed too far by the living, go feral,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Stoker Spotlight Interview with Rocky Wood

• October 10, 2012
• 11 Comments

Rocky Wood is the recipient of the 2011 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Acheivement in Non-fiction for his book Stephen King: A Literary Companion. 1. How would you describe Stephen… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Why Horror? by Cher Green

• October 9, 2012
• 8 Comments

I’ve wanted to be a writer for as far back as I can remember. Emily Dickinson led me into poetry, and V.C. Andrews opened me up to fiction. My reading… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Why Horror Should Be Its Own Genre by Annie Neugebauer

• October 9, 2012
• 20 Comments

“Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction meant to be confined to the ghetto of a… Read more

Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Primer for Horror Writers by Lisa Morton

• October 8, 2012
• 15 Comments

As a Halloween expert, I’ve been asked to do a lot of interesting things. I’ve been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal about the proliferation of sexy Halloween costumes, I’ve… Read more