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In Memoriam: Bruce Boston

• December 13, 2024
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Bruce Boston: an Appreciation

by Mary A. Turzillo

Bruce David Boston, emperor of the weird, the esoteric, the absurd.  Once a year at least, my husband Geoffrey Landis and I… Read more

NUTS & BOLTS: Interview With Writer, Filmmaker, Playwright John Patrick Higgins

• September 15, 2024
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As a novelist, short-story writer, filmmaker, playwright, and theater director, John Patrick Higgins has explored the art of story-telling from many different perspectives. In this month’s edition of Nuts & Bolts, he discusses the counterintuitive similarities between horror and humor, and gives advice for authors who’d like to try writing for the stage.

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Ray Zacek

• November 24, 2023
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Ray Zacek is a retired federal officer living in Tampa, Florida, with his wife, artist Theresa Beck. A flaneur and inveterate scribbler, Ray writes horror, dark fiction, and crime/noir. His work has been published by Critical Blast, Denver Horror Collective, Tule Fog, Allegory Online, All Due Respect, Shotgun Honey, among other venues. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association.

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: C.C. Winchester

• November 21, 2023
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C.C. Winchester Biography

C.C. Winchester’s love of horror began at the tender age of five, when she started sneaking into the living room late at night to watch zombie movies… Read more

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: David Rose

• November 18, 2023
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David Rose Biography

David Rose served in the United States Marine Corps from 2002 to 2006, during which deploying to Iraq to participate in the second battle of Fallujah. Since… Read more

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Luciano Marano

• November 15, 2023
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Luciano Marano Biography

Luciano Marano is an award-winning writer, journalist, and photographer, the author of a trilogy of werewolf novellas, The Ambush Moon Cycle, and many short stories which have… Read more

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Xavier Poe Kane

• November 13, 2023
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Xavier Poe Kane Biography

Xavier served 6 years in the Air Force after which he spent 14 in the Air National Guard, retiring in 2020. He currently lives in… Read more

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Douglass Hoover

• November 12, 2023
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Douglass Hoover Biography

Douglass Hoover is the author of The North Woods, The Accursed Huntsman, and The Homestead. He is a Marine Corps infantry combat veteran and holds an… Read more

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Pamela K. Kinney

• November 12, 2023
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Pamela K. Kinney Biography

Pamela K. Kinney gave up long ago ignoring the demanding voices in her head and has written been writing ever since. Her horror short story, “Bottled… Read more

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Jeremy Eads

• November 11, 2023
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Jeremy Eads Biography

My name is Jeremy Eads. I was a counterintelligence agent for the United States Army from 2002 through 2007. I mainly specialized in push ups, cutting… Read more

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Zachariah Jones

• November 9, 2023
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Zachariah Jones Biography

I have been serving in the US Army (National Guard) since 2006. I enlisted at age 17 to be a 12B (Combat Engineer). After several years and… Read more

Indigenous Heritage in Horror Month: Interview with Stephen Graham Jones

• November 7, 2023
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Stephen Graham Jones is the NYT bestselling author of some thirty novels and collections, and there’s some novellas and comic books in there as well. Most recent are Don’t Fear… Read more

Veterans in Horror Spotlight 2023: Chance Fortune

• November 6, 2023
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Chance Fortune Biography

I’m an active service member and noncommissioned officer in the Army National Guard with twelve years of service and one tour overseas to the Middle East and… Read more

A Point of Pride: Interview with Arley Sorg

• June 6, 2023
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Arley Sorg is an associate agent at kt literary and co-Editor-in-Chief at Fantasy Magazine. He is an SFWA Solstice Award Recipient, a Space Cowboy Award Recipient, a two-time World Fantasy… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Lisa Tuttle

• May 27, 2023
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Lisa Tuttle, a Texan by birth, Scottish by inclination and residence, is the author of 13 novels and seven short story collections. Windhaven, written in collaboration with George R.R. Martin,… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

• May 22, 2023
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Chelsea Quinn Yarbro started writing stories at age six; she’s still at it.

Did you start out writing or working in the horror field, and if so why? If not,

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Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Nancy Holder

• May 21, 2023
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Nancy Holder is the former vice president and former board member of HWA. She is New York Times bestselling author of over a hundred book-length projects and hundreds of short… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Paula Guran

• May 21, 2023
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Editor, anthologist, and reviewer Paula Guran has edited more than fifty science fiction, fantasy, and horror anthologies and more than fifty novels and collections featuring the same. She was senior… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Kathryn Ptacek

• May 19, 2023
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Kathryn Ptacek is the editor of the landmark Women of Darkness I and Women of Darkness II, published at a time when most anthologies included few or no women writers.… Read more

Celebrating Our Elders: Interview with Nisi Shawl

• May 18, 2023
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Nisi Shawl’s debut novel Everfair, an alternate history of Africa’s Congo region, was a Nebula Award finalist. They’re the author of the Otherwise Award-winning story collection Filter House. They edited… Read more