Horror author Matt Cowan examines the genre past and present
I wanted to highlight a few of the favorite things I came across while working on articles for Horror Delve this past year. The original publishing dates for these works are not a factor. Basically, if it was featured on the site during 2019, it’s eligible. I’m calling them The Horror Delve Haunt Awards. There’s […]
Read More THE 2019 HORROR DELVE HAUNT AWARDSGrinning Skull Press has published over fifty original horror novels, novellas and anthologies since its inception, including their annual Deathlehem series of Christmas horror anthologies. I’ve personally been lucky enough to have stories of my own make appearances in three of them. My experiences working with both Michael and his co-editor Harrison Graves have always […]
Read More 13 QUESTIONS WITH EDITOR MICHAEL EVANSMy new short Christmas-themed horror story “Lovely Weather for an Unseelie Sleigh Ride Together” is now available in the anthology A Tree Lighting in Deathlehem from Grinning Skull Press. This will be my third appearance in the Deathlehem series of anthologies, so I’m excited to make a return visit. To add a bit of context, […]
Read More “LOVELY WEATHER FOR AN UNSEELIE SLEIGH RIDE TOGETHER” IS AVAILABLE IN A TREE LIGHTING IN DEATHLEHEMFor as long as I can remember, I’ve had a special love for the ghostly, holiday classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Every Christmas season I still make a point to watch some version of it, and there have been a lot of them. Whether it be the 1951 film Scrooge starring Alastair Sim, […]
Read More FREE AUDIO READING OF CHARLES DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL FROM HYPNOGORIAThis is always one of my favorite posts to put together each year, so here for the seventh time is this year’s Christmas Horror Suggested Reading List. Each of these stories takes place during the festive Christmas season. After the list, I’ve included links to each previous year’s lists. Merry Christmas! The Stories: 1. “Markheim” […]
Read More CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY READING LIST VII (2019)Born in Prague, Bohemia in 1883, Franz Kafka went on to become a major influence in modern fiction. His novels and short stories most often include bleak realism combined with absurdity and surrealism. His unique style of storytelling has given birth to the term Kafkaesque. While I wouldn’t necessarily describe these tales as horror, they […]
Read More SIX FRANZ KAFKA STORIESThe most recent issue of Black Infinity is now available for purchase from online retailers such as Amazon and Barnes and Noble. This issue focuses on the subject of derelict vessels abandoned and cast adrift for mysterious reasons. My retro-movie review column Matt Cowan’s Threat Watch returns once again, this time to examine a handful […]
Read More BLACK INFINITY #5: DERELICTS IS NOW AVAILABLE