MY TEN SHORT HORROR FICTION QUIZ ANSWERS

My friend, Jay Rothermel, recently presented this series of questions online and since I’m running way behind on stuff this month, I thought I’d post my answers here for this month’s Horror Delve entry. Short horror fiction I think underrated: “Clairvoyance” by D. K. Broster (1932) – I challenge anyone to read it. It starts […]

EIGHT EERIE STORIES BY MARY ELIZABETH COUNSELMAN

Born in Alabama in 1911, Mary Elizabeth Counselman was a speculative fiction and poetry writer whose work appeared in numerous popular publications such as Weird Tales, The Saturday Evening Post and Colliers to name a few. She worked as a reporter for The Birmingham News later in life and had a deep appreciation for cats, […]

CHRISTMAS HORROR STORY READING LIST X

Just as Horror Delve’s Annual Halloween Suggested Reading List hit its tenth iteration this past October, it’s now time for the Christmas Reading List to follow suit. Putting this annual list together never fails to get me in the mood for the festive season. This year’s selection of stories skews more toward the recent than […]

HORROR DELVE AND “DEAD HANDS CLAPPING” IN ISSUE 2 OF NIGHTMARE ABBEY

BIG NEWS! Issue #2 of Nightmare Abbey Magazine from Dead Letter Press is now available for purchase. My Horror Delve column makes a return appearance in its pages, this time finding me taking a look at dreams and nightmares in short horror fiction. Alongside my column, I also have a new short story published in […]

FELLSTONES BY RAMSEY CAMPBELL REVIEW

I buy few novels these days, largely due to my limited reading time and just being a slow reader in general. I do, however, make an exception whenever a new Ramsey Campbell novel comes available. So, when I saw Fellstones (Flame Tree Publishing 2022) showed up for preorder, I purchased it without a second thought. […]

HALLOWEEN SUGGESTED READING LIST X (2022)

Every year since I began Horror Delve back in 2013 I’ve posted a suggested reading list for Halloween. As with each of these lists, not all of the stories are set during Halloween, but they all do evoke the feel of the holiday at their core (at least in my opinion). We have now arrived […]

FIVE TERRIFYING F. MARION CRAWFORD STORIES

Born in Tuscany in 1854, Francis Marion Crawford had dual Italian and American citizenship. He became a prominent novelist, many of the romance variety, as well as an essayist, historian and short story writer. It’s his horror stories which we are interested in looking at here today. He first came to my notice while I […]

SEVEN RAY CLULEY HORROR STORIES

Ray Cluley is a horror/speculative fiction writer from Wales who has won a British Fantasy Award for Short Fiction (“Shark! Shark’) and has had both a novella (“Water For Drowning”) and a short story collection (Probably Monsters) short listed for major awards as well. He’s also had several of his stories appear in Best Of […]

WALTER DE LA MARE ARTICLE

Born in Kent England in 1873, Walter de la Mare worked in The London Office of the Standard Oil company, but it was his poetry and fiction writing for which he is still remembered today. His works have been favorably cited by such titans of the genre as H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell and Reggie Oliver. […]

MATT COWAN’S HORROR DELVE IN NIGHTMARE ABBEY MAGAZINE

I’m excited to announce that I (Matt Cowan) will be writing a regular column for a new horror publication called NIGHTMARE ABBEY, edited by Tom English and published by Dead Letter Press. My column will be titled MATT COWAN’S HORROR DELVE. I’ll be free to write about any horror-related subject which catches my fancy, but […]