"Life is horror and fantasy, not necessarily in that order."
FrankenCon 2024 is hosting the debut screening of the indie horror film Solitude on Friday at 5 p.m. on May 10 at the Hilton Knoxville Airport in Alcoa, Tennessee. The showing is free for anyone with a ticket to the third annual convention. Mick Strawn is excited for the public to see Solitude, a movie he co-directed …
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Season 19 of the HorrorAddicts.net podcast begins April 19, and that means The Bigfoot Files is back. Kicking off the new season of The Bigfoot Files is a review of the novella Bog Beast, which includes an exclusive interview with author Brian Gatto. It's live on the HorrorAddicts.net site right now. The Bigfoot Files debuted …
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The Bram Stoker Awards Committee reported a correction to the 2023 Final Ballot after concluding Chuck Tingle's novel Camp Damascus was in the wrong category. Camp Damascus, which was initially announced as a nominee for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel, was moved to the Novel category, joining The Reformatory by Tananarive Due, How to …
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Unquiet Spirits: Essays by Asian Women in Horror led the Final Ballot of the 2023 Bram Stoker Awards with four nominations, according to a February 21 release by the Horror Writers Association. Edited by Lee Murray and Angela Yuriko Smith, Unquiet Spirits scored a nomination in the category for Superior Achievement in Long Nonfiction. Three of its …
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Credit: KillerConAustin.com A pair of two-time past winners, Bryan Smith and Candace Nola, each received two nominations for 2024 Splatterpunk Awards, leading a field that features 12 first-time nominees among the 25 works of fiction being honored. Smith's Dead End House earned a nomination for Best Novel and "Night People" (a bonus story from his …
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In the past month, I’ve had three of my author interviews appear on The Horror Tree, which is one of the best sites for speculative fiction writers on the Interweb. Writer’s Digest agrees and has regularly featured The Horror Tree as one of the top genre websites. I’m always excited when The Horror Tree accepts …
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The deadline for the 2024 Splatterpunk Awards nominations is Sunday, Dec. 31. Works of Extreme Horror fiction published in 2023 are eligible, and anyone can email their nominations to splatterpunkawards@gmail.com. The emails must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Co-founded by authors Wrath James White and Brian Keene, the Splatterpunk Awards honor the …
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Horror author couple Brian Keene and Mary SanGiovanni announced the planned opening of an independent bookstore in the historic district of Columbia, Pennsylvania, hoping to create a destination spot for book lovers. According to briankeene.com, the new business called Vortex Books & Comics will open in Spring 2024. The venture is “inspired by Dark Delicacies, …
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I am excited about the debut of a new monthly feature called The MalevolentDark.com Horror Fiction Top 25. What I like about this Top 25 is it only considers the previous month’s new and original releases on Amazon Kindle. So, it’s fresh and not dominated by big-name authors' older works, giving a lot of independent writers, anthologies, …
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This month, publisher HorrorAddicts.net released the third issue of its digital magazine Horror Curated with the theme “Halloween.” The brainchild of creator and horror lifestyle podcaster Emerian Rich, Horror Curated features 48 full-color pages packed with interviews, reviews, and interesting articles on horror history, spooky locations, and crafts. To visit the ezine’s Etsy site, click here. For this issue, I had the honor of …
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The Official Website of Horror and Fantasy Writer Lionel Ray Green 