HORROR AND FANTASY WRITER
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review horror short stories.) "Slashbacks" by Bram Stoker Award-winning author Tim Waggoner is a vicious little wish-fulfillment tale of vengeance set inside a horror movie lover's dream video store. The short story appears in the 2022 anthology Attack from the '80s edited by Eugene Johnson and... Continue Reading →
Rachel Harrison's witchy tale, Cackle, won Best Novel for the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards, according to an announcement by the LOHF on June 29. The LOHF also announced winners in the other seven categories. Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl won Best Debut. The Best Collection category resulted in a tie with Isabel... Continue Reading →
V. Castro, Hailey Piper, and Isabel Yap each received multiple nominations for the 2021 Ladies of Horror Fiction Awards, according to announcements by the LOHF team on its website. Castro's The Queen of the Cicadas is nominated for Best Novel and Goddess of Filth for Best Novella. Both works also received nominations for 2021 Bram... Continue Reading →
Horror Hostess Emerian Rich created HorrorAddicts.net as a forum for other creators to explore all aspects of the horror lifestyle. Her latest project, Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2, brings together years of that exploration and packs everything into one book. And we're talking EVERYTHING. Here's the book's description: "Do you love the horror genre?... Continue Reading →
Jeff Strand holding his first Bram Stoker Award on May 14 in Denver, Colorado. It's 2022 and horror author Jeff Strand now lives in Chattanooga. But he still watches Survivor, his cat Chaos is still spoiled, and he's still writing his unique blend of horror and comedy. What else? Oh, he won a Bram Stoker... Continue Reading →
Credit: http://www.fangoria.com Unlike the past three years, voters decided to spread the love with a dozen different films represented on the winner’s list of the 2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards streamed May 15 on Shudder. Featuring two new categories, the Chainsaw Awards honored an eclectic mix of horror movies with no film winning more than two of the... Continue Reading →
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review horror short stories.) “Quiet Embers” opens with the heart-wrenching line, “My neighbors house burned down six months ago with their children inside.” The tale then gently explores how the now empty lot haunts the narrator, a new resident of the neighborhood. “Quiet Embers” is one... Continue Reading →
Stephen Graham Jones joined an exclusive group of authors when he won Superior Achievement in a Novel for the second consecutive year at the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards on May 14 in Denver, Colorado. Stephen Graham Jones Since the inception of the Bram Stoker Awards in 1987, Jones is only the sixth writer to win... Continue Reading →
My Heart Is a Chainsaw cut through the competition and earned Stephen Graham Jones his second consecutive Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a Novel. The Horror Writers Association announced the winners of the 2021 Bram Stoker Awards at StokerCon in Denver, Colorado, on May 14. This year’s win was the fourth Bram Stoker Award... Continue Reading →
(Editor’s note: SHORT SHOTS is a column where I review horror short stories.) From the disturbing image in the first sentence to the unsettling realization in the final two lines, Lisa Quigley’s “Birth” takes the “sometimes dead is better” theme of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary to the next grim level. Released in 2018, “Birth” is... Continue Reading →
LIONEL RAY GREEN 