Horror author Matt Cowan examines the genre past and present
This October will be very special here at Horror Delve. I’ll be posting my Third Annual Halloween Reading List shortly. Later in the month will bring a list of suggested movies designed to send a shiver up your spine. There will be a bit about my visit to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios, Orlando, […]
Read More THIS OCTOBER AT HORROR DELVEHappy Halloween! I hope everyone is enjoying a terrifying day filled with spectral frights. To that end, I’m offering up a short story of my own. “The Shadow Man of Moon Spine Bridge” was originally published in the anthology INDIANA HORROR 2012 by James Ward Kirk Fiction. It’s about a man returning to his childhood […]
Read More “The Shadow Man of Moon Spine Bridge” by Matt CowanI’ve been a fan of Raven Bower since her first book, APPARITIONS. Her ability to introduce lifelike, realistic characters into bone-chilling scenes of nightmarish terror are second-to-none. I could go on about how much I enjoyed it and its subsequent sequels, but I did that already here: https://horrordelve.com/2014/03/24/baileykhanetrilogy/. She and her husband Lain have also […]
Read More HORROR DELVE ASKS: WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE HALLOWEEN COSTUME, RAVEN BOWER?Tom English is a writer, an editor, and the owner of DEAD LETTER PRESS. I met him when he accepted my first short story, “The Collective of Blaque Reach”, to serve as a companion chap book to the fantastic anthology, BOUND FOR EVIL: CURIOUS TALES OF BOOKS GONE BAD. I count myself lucky to have […]
Read More Horror Delve Asks: What was your favorite HalloweenCostume, Tom English?David T. Wilbanks is one of my absolute favorite people to follow online. His posts about horror and fantasy in literature, on TV and in movies are insightful, witty and always a fun read. I first became aware of him when he used to cohost the great Pod of Horror podcast with Mark Justice. The […]
Read More Horror Delve Asks: What Was Your Favorite Halloween Costume, David T. Wilbanks?Hope everyone’s enjoying October’s monthlong trek toward Halloween. The leaves have started changing color, lurid specters have escaped their basement storage box dungeons to mingle among the living again, and Horror Delve’s Second Annual Halloween Reading List has emerged from the darkness. The stories on this list aren’t necessarily set during Halloween, but they are […]
Read More HORROR DELVE’S SECOND ANNUAL HALLOWEEN READING LISTI met Murphy Edwards when we shared space in a few anthologies from James Ward Kirk Fiction. Through our interactions online, I became very impressed with him as a person. Not only is he a talented writer who excels in creating interesting, lifelike characters, but he’s also great at encouraging his fellow writers. He and […]
Read More What Was Your Favorite Halloween Costume, Murphy Edwards?I’m planning several special posts for Halloween this year at Horror Delve that I’m pretty excited about. My annual Halloween short story reading list will return along with some possible guest posts, and I’m considering posting one of my own stories here as well. Hope you stop by to celebrate the season!
Read More Coming This Halloween to Horror DelveLooking for some atmospheric horror stories to enjoy this Halloween? Here’s a few I think fit the bill. Several of these can be found for free online. 1. “Feet Foremost” by L.P. Hartley (1948) – A group assembles at newly-renovated Low Threshold Hall for a housewarming. There they encounter the malicious ghost of an ill-treated […]
Read More TEN SCARY SHORT STORIES FOR HALLOWEEN
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