Happy Halloween my beautiful darklings! I’m currently recovering from the New Orleans Endless Night mayhem. I hope your All Hallows Eve will prove to be a wicked one full of spooky tricks and delicious treats! This month I am participating in a Halloween blog tour initiated by the paranormal goddess Jo Lynne Valerie. Below is [...]

Today I unveiled an extremely experimental new short story on Lulu entitled “The Beat”. Set in the 1940′s, “The Beat” is the tale of a vampire and his obsession with a jazz singer. I have been obsessed with the literary stylings of Jack Kerouac ever since I read ON THE ROAD in the 6th grade. [...]

Today we have another fabulous guest piece from horror author Mark. W. Worthen entitled “Maslow’s Magic 8-Ball”. According to his bio Mark W. Worthen is secretly a vampire. From his first young exposure to Dracula with Bela Lugosi to his obsession with Saint-Germain, Mark has found the vampire an fascinating and often sympathetic character. In [...]

Rodents Gabrielle S. Faust ©2009 Gerald opened his eyes to find the gerbils were encroaching. From his place on the floor where he had fallen during his attempted escape, hitting his head solidly on the edge of the granite kitchen breakfast bar, he could see them inching into the room from the dark hall like [...]

The Ordeal © Gabrielle S. Faust 2009 Edmond sat alone in the dungeon below the church, his ankles and wrists bound by heavy iron chains. Earlier that evening he had been awaken by the sound of screaming men, chanting the word of God as they crashed through his home, ripping him away from the simple [...]

Award-winning novelist, Public Radio commentator and cultural critic Michael Marano will be reading from his novelette “Shibboleth”, an original work from his upcoming collection Stories from the Plague Years, this MONDAY, JUNE 8th, 8PM at Boston’s Grub Street, Inc., a non-profit creative writing center located at 160 Boylston Street in Boston (near the Park Street [...]

The Horror Writers Association’s 2009 Stoker Awards weekend will be held in Burbank, California, June 12th – 14th. The annual event – sometimes held in conjunction with World Horror Convention – is held in a different city each year. John R. Little, whose Miranda has been nominated in the category of Superior Achievement in Long [...]

When the snows fell hard this past year, the entire Northeast buckled down for a long, cold winter. Among the states affected most was Massachusetts, and one of the places hit worst was a town located in its northeast region – a small hamlet named Miskatonic Falls. Situated inside the Miskatonic Valley Region, there’s only [...]