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Guest Post Su Halfwerk
What's so horrifying about hotels?by Su HalfwerkA hotel makes for a fertile horror environment. Fiction writers frequently bend and flex that setting until it fit snuggly within their writing. Let’s...
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Guest Post: Megan Hart
Why a Serial?by Megan HartWhen I set out to write The Resurrected, I had this crazy idea of writing a monthly piece that would take a look at several sets of characters and storylines, all within the...
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Flash Fiction: Ryan C. Thomas
A Word From Ryan C. ThomasI get a lot of praise for my novel, The Summer I Died, but one of the first stories I ever sold--in fact it may have been the very first story I sold--was a Halloween story....
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Flash Fiction: Glenn Rolfe
by Glenn Rolfe“Honey, come here, you have to see this.”“Yes, dear,” Luke said. He poured a steaming cup of Hazelnut coffee into his...
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Guest Post: Gemma Files
THE BLACK TAPES PODCASTBy Gemma FilesHi, all. I'm here to talk about my favourite current not-so-guilty pleasure, The Black Tapes Podcast, a docudrama co-produced by Minnow Beats Whale and the National...
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Guest Post: JG Faherty
Questions for Librariansby J.G. FahertyFor today’s blog takeover, I thought I’d shift the focus from individual books or authors to something that involves all writers and readers – the importance of...
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Flash Fiction: Rhiannon Frater
by Rhiannon FraterShe stands at the crossroads.A vaporous concoction of light and mist, she waits against the gloomy backdrop of the gnarled mesquite trees. Hollow sockets devoid of life stare toward...
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Women of Horror Roundtable
Women of Horror RoundtableOne female author in horror is a rarity, but three at one time? It’s almost unheard of. So you can imagine my excitement when I learned that Sephera Giron and Catherine...
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Fest O'Fun: Lee Thomas
Halloween Fest ‘O Fun Since I have the attention span of a gnat on crack, I flew in about fifty different directions trying to produce a single Halloween-themed thing that might encapsulate the best...
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Guest Post: Bev Vincent
The Halloween Treeby Bev VincentI’m a child of the late sixties and early seventies. I grew up in a rural area, a stretch of houses running along the main highway in northern New Brunswick, a two-lane...
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Book Spotlight: Gary McMahon
Book SpotlightImagine a man in a room on a quiet suburban street. He is typing at a computer, writing as if for his life. He writes all night long, his face a mask of concentration, hands moving so...
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Guest Post: Brian Pinkerton
The Most Frightening Showon TelevisionBy Brian PinkertonWhen I was young, fear was defined by monsters of the imagination: living dead, bloodsuckers, werewolves, aliens, mutants and bogeymen. They...
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Book Spotlight: Mick Ridgewell
Book SpotlightOnly the good die young.Back in the Spring of 1912, evil blossomed in Kings Shore. Vampire demons with a vicious thirst for blood. Network newsman...
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Flash Fiction: Adam Pepper
Harry Never SmilesBy Adam Pepper Harry woke up, and drank his morning coffee. His wife muttered something about, “Are you gonna take out the garbage on your way out?” But he wasn’t listening,...
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Book Spotlight: Xombie by Brody Sommers
Book SpotlightOnly the rich and affluent can afford the full xombie experience. Many of them are willing to pay top dollar for the thrill of a sexual encounter with an infected Z-girl. But power in the...
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Flash Fiction: Bill Breedlove
Game ShowBy Bill Breedlove As she hustled them out onto the stage, the PA smiled widely and said, “Remember, it’s not if you’re really crazy, it’s if you can make them believe that you’re really...
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Book Spotlight: Dark Arts Books Anthology
BOOK SPOTLIGHTby Martin Mundt, John Everson, Bill Breedlove and Jay BonansingaReleased at the World Horror Convention in 2006, Dark Arts Books’ debut title features three “new and used” stories each...
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Guest Post: Kristopher Ruffy
Prank Night: Originsby Kristopher Rufty I stink at self-promotion. I do. I am absolutely terrible at it. Even before I was published, self-promotion was hammered into my skull with a railroad spike...
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Flash Fiction: Martin Mundt
The Mouseby Martin Mundt(previously published in Nightspots, Feb 03) My gunshots died away, firecracker echoes drifting down the alley behind the theme park, behind the castles and...
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Guest Post: Loren Rhoads
Exes and Ohsby Loren Rhoads In 2008, John Everson published a story of mine about a succubus who falls in love with an angel. “The Angel’s Lair” had the honor of opening the collection called Sins of...
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