Latin authors Gabino Iglesias and Cynthia Pelayo made history at the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 17. Iglesias won Superior Achievement in a Novel for his book The Devil Takes You Home and became the first Latino to win the award. Iglesias is a Puerto Rican native who lives in... Continue Reading →
The third time was the charm for Gabino Iglesias. His book The Devil Takes You Home won Superior Achievement in a Novel at the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards. It was Iglesias's first Stoker win, but he was previously nominated in 2020 for Long Fiction (“Beyond the Reef”) and in 2018 for Fiction Collection (Coyote Songs).... Continue Reading →
Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jeff Strand likes a good twist, and his new novel Veiled features one of his biggest. Released June 6, Veiled is about an average guy named Nate who meets and starts dating Alice, a woman who harbors a shocking secret. Strand explained his theory on what makes a good twist in... Continue Reading →
Splatterpunk Award-nominated author Bridgett Nelson released her first new standalone project in more than a year. Actually, she released two. Her collections Sweet, Sour, & Spicy and What the F*** Was That? dropped on June 6. The two books follow Nelson’s Splatterpunk-nominated collection A Bouquet of Viscera, which hit shelves in March 2022. So, what... Continue Reading →
Forty-five years after the release of the B movie spoof Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, we have a novelization by an author who is perfectly suited to bring the absurdity of the film’s premise to the written page. Thanks to an amusing tweet by horror writer Jeff Strand and a serious response by Encyclopocalypse Publications, the book... Continue Reading →
The Black Phone and Terrifier 2 led the winners at the Fangoria 2023 Chainsaw Awards aired by Shudder on May 21. The Black Phone, an adaptation of the 2004 short story by Joe Hill, won Best Wide Release Movie and Best Screenplay by C. Robert Cargill and Scott Derrickson. The film also earned two actor awards. Madeleine... Continue Reading →
I had the privilege of attending the Taylor Swift concert in Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday thanks to my sweetheart’s tenacity when tickets went on sale in February. Her name is Taylor, too, and she waited on the Internet five hours to buy tickets. I like some of Taylor Swift’s music, but as a teenager of... Continue Reading →
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review short stories from horror anthologies, collections, and zines.) “Meat cleaver in hand and her belly full of blood, Cynthia hid beneath the carving table, trembling with fear.” This killer first sentence jump-starts the culinary horror short story “My Body” by two-time Splatterpunk Award-winning author Wesley Southard.... Continue Reading →
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review short stories from horror anthologies, collections, and zines.) Illinois author John Everson’s horror novels and short stories often use the disturbing combination of the occult and taboo sex to explore infidelity and obsession. While he won a Bram Stoker Award for First Novel with Covenant... Continue Reading →
The quintet of talented authors vying for Superior Achievement in a Novel at the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards already have 22 nominations and four wins among them, but all five are looking for their first win in the most notable category of the night. Winners of the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards will be announced June... Continue Reading →
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