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Halloween Haunts: The Masque of the Red Horde by Gene O’Neill

• October 31, 2014
• 1 Comment

Dim light spilling through a red-stained Gothic window cast a ghastly pall over a heavily shadowed long hall. At the center of the room, bathed in the bloody illumination, a… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Phases of Halloween by Peter Adam Salomon

• October 30, 2014
• 2 Comments

‘Baby’s First Halloween’ This entails adorable costumes, miniaturized, and usually pumpkin shaped. While there’s no need for candy, there’s an intense desire on the part of parents to show their… Read more

Halloween Haunts: I’m Old Now and Halloween was Better Once… Really by John F.D. Taff

• October 29, 2014
• 2 Comments

Ok, you know, it’s true what they say about growing old. Yes, about the aches and pains.  OK, yes, about the fossilfication of your music choices.  And, sigh, yes, also… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Tamlane and Alison Gross: Halloween Ballads by Lisa Morton

• October 28, 2014
• 5 Comments

Although magazines and books like to tell us that Halloween is an ancient festival with pagan roots, the truth is the holiday as we know it is really only a… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween in Rockhampton by Greg Chapman

• October 27, 2014
• 1 Comment

Halloween is spreading like the branches of an ancient bay tree across my hometown of Rockhampton, Australia. Last year was the first time I decided to put up a Halloween… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Trick-or-Treating of the Dead, A True Account by T. Fox Dunham

• October 26, 2014
• 3 Comments

Few of you know that I am a real zombie. It’s true. I hide it. Now, I don’t eat brains or human flesh though. I generally dress well, though my… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween – Derivations and Diversions by David Sakmyster

• October 26, 2014
• 3 Comments

I have fond memories of my formative years playing Dungeons and Dragons and romping through some spooky forest only to come across that dreaded Will-o’-the-wisp—whatever that was. The Dungeon Master… Read more

Halloween Haunts: It Takes A Writer: The Legacy of CJ Henderson by Patrick Thomas

• October 25, 2014
• 2 Comments

Halloween is a holiday steeped in tradition. The HWA is an organization with many traditions of its own. Arguably one of the most important is that writers should help other… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The Betamax Horror by Tom Calen

• October 25, 2014
• 2 Comments

I got my first real taste of fear when I was four or five years old. It was the early 1980s in Brooklyn, New York, and the night, quite fittingly,… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Homemade Halloween By Doug Murano

• October 24, 2014
• 9 Comments

I always feel a mix of giddy excitement and sadness when grocery stores and department stores switch over their wares for the Halloween season. Rows of rubbery fright masks. Aisles… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Blood and Coffee by Alp Beck

• October 23, 2014
• 13 Comments

The dimness of the cave made it hard for the old man to see the thing’s details.  The small gelatinous mass was of indeterminate color and shape.  He squinted and… Read more

Halloween Haunts: What Your Costume Choices Say About You by Jennifer Brinkmeyer

• October 22, 2014
• 6 Comments

I don’t know how many adults have a costume chest, but I have two. When spring cleaning rolls around, no clothes leave my house that have the potential to make… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Warm Regards from the Meatgrinder by Mark Onspaugh

• October 22, 2014
• 2 Comments

All good ghost storytellers know that, if you want to make your story truly effective, turn down the lights. But if you really want to crank up the gooseflesh, tell… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Where Horror Lies by Loren Rhoads

• October 21, 2014
• 9 Comments

This time of year, when the veil is thin, is a great time to make a pilgrimage to thank our forefathers in horror. Ray Bradbury, Westwood Village Memorial Park, Los… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Memories by K.R. Morrison

• October 20, 2014
• 1 Comment

I’ve just come in from pulling the cornstalks and hanging them to dry. And next week, the high school will have its annual Homecoming Parade down our street. What, you… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Horror Writers Association Goes to the Library

• October 19, 2014
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This year, for the first time, the Horror Writers Association invited libraries to get involved with Halloween Haunts and help promote the event to their patrons. Libraries were asked to… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Mass Grave by Colum Sanson-Regan

• October 19, 2014
• 14 Comments

The Irish countryside is alive with spirits. On Halloween, the Celtic New Year, the thin veil between this world and the next slips. For the Celts, the year was divided… Read more

Halloween Haunts: The House of Hallows Eve by Anthony Crowley

• October 18, 2014
• 3 Comments

The month of October has always made me feel comforted, I recall during my childhood years the local residents of Warley County in the West Midlands would prepare and speak… Read more

Halloween Haunts: Halloween Lost by Kenneth W.Cain

• October 17, 2014
• 10 Comments

My daughter told me she no longer wishes to go out on Halloween night. This worried me, the thought that our children would never know Halloween night the way prior… Read more

Halloween Haunts: I Don’t Get Zombies by Kristina Stancil

• October 16, 2014
• 7 Comments

Zombies. I don’t get the fascination. Aside from George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, a few scenes of Shaun of the Dead, Warm Bodies, and a handful of children’s… Read more