MHI: HOW HORROR CAN OFFER SOLACE

The following post contains this writer’s individual experiences and opinions.  This post should not be interpreted as mental health diagnosis or treatment. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact your nearest mental health center or local emergency services.  Written by Nicole Henning [Trigger Warning: This article addresses mental health/illness] Straining to see in the darkness, the slightest shift of light looks like movement in the perpetual gloom. Your ears are homing in on any sound for an indication of what direction the impending danger could come from. In this experience of veritable sensory deprivation, you may find…

MHI: WRITING HORROR WITH PTSD…AND THERAPY WITH STEPHEN KING’S IT

*The following post contains this writer’s individual experiences and opinions.  This post should not be interpreted as mental health diagnosis or treatment. If you are experiencing a mental health crisis, please contact your nearest mental health center or local emergency services.  Written by Brooklyn Ann Disclaimer: What I am sharing is my personal experience in what is working for me when it comes to my mental health issues. Everybody’s experiences and issues are different, and what works for me won’t necessarily work on everyone. I am not endorsing any specific methods or treatments. But I do hope that sharing my…
YA Writing Prompt: Cabin Fever

YA Writing Prompt: Cabin Fever

Young Horror brings you writing prompts to energize your week with spooky writing idea inspiration. Are you writing picture books, chapter books, middle grade, or YA? Your next great idea could be sparked right here. The Horrors of Winter Break Ah...take a breath, because December brings with it Winter Break. There's a short vacation for kids, teens, and parents from the usual routine of packing lunches, school buses, and homework. Picture togetherness, smell the holiday spices, taste the hot cocoa, feel the soft flannel of matching family pajamas. Sometimes, there can be TOO much togetherness. If the weather's terrible or the…

RAGE AGAINST THE NIGHT — Benefit Anthology for HWA President Rocky Wood

Edited by HWA Member Shane Jiraiya Cummings Under the onslaught of supernatural evil, the acts of good people can seem insignificant, but a courageous few stand apart. These brave men and women stand up to the darkness, stare it right in the eye, and give it the finger. These are the stories of those who rage against the night, stories of triumph, sacrifice, and bravery in the face of overwhelming evil. Rage Against the Night features the megastars of dark fantasy and horror, including Stephen King, Ramsey Campbell, Peter Straub, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, F. Paul Wilson, Jonathan Maberry, Scott Nicholson,…

STEPHEN KING: UNCOLLECTED by HWA Member Rocky Wood

Full Title: Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished Revised for this special eBook edition, Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished is the most comprehensive review of the Stephen King works you've never read, including coverage of nearly one hundred unpublished and uncollected works of fiction — novels, short stories, screenplays, and poems! Best of all, it features the first book publication of two lost works written by King, including an entire chapter from King's unpublished 1970 novel Sword in the Darkness that has never been published anywhere in the world! Stephen King: Uncollected, Unpublished also gives in-depth coverage to the nearly one hundred variations…

Bram Stoker Award 2010 Winners Announced

Superior Achievement in a NOVEL A DARK MATTER by Peter Straub (Doubleday/Orion) Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL (Tie) BLACK AND ORANGE by Benjamin Kane Ethridge (Bad Moon Books) THE CASTLE OF LOS ANGELES by Lisa Morton (Gray Friar Press) Superior Achievement in LONG FICTION INVISIBLE FENCES by Norman Prentiss (Cemetery Dance) Superior Achievement in SHORT FICTION “The Folding Man” by Joe R. Lansdale (from HAUNTED LEGENDS) Superior Achievement in an ANTHOLOGY HAUNTED LEGENDS edited by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas (Tor) Superior Achievement in a FICTION COLLECTION FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King (Simon and Schuster) Superior Achievement…

Horror Writers Association Celebrates 2008 Stoker Winners!

At long last, the anticipation is over. The Horror Writers Association has announced the winners of the 2008 Bram Stoker Awards at its annual Stoker Banquet held Saturday, June 13th, 2009 as part of its Stoker Weekend in Burbank, California. Nine new bronze haunted-house statuettes were handed over to the writers responsible for creating superior works of horror last year. This year’s winners are: Superior Achievement in a NOVEL DUMA KEY by Stephen King (Scribner) Superior Achievement in a FIRST NOVEL THE GENTLING BOX by Lisa Mannetti (Dark Hart Press) Superior Achievement in LONG FICTION MIRANDA by John R. Little…