Wednesday Addams, the Headless Horseman, and Velma from Scooby Doo walked into a horror convention. They walked with me from the parking garage to Spooky Empire, along with gender-swapped Beetlejuice and more than one Pennywise. Sam from Trick r Treat greeted me when I walked in. I love Sam, and Halloween was only a few days away, but I had a writing panel to catch. Spooky Empire st[...]
0 Another Halloween has come and gone. Another season of skulls and horror movies and carving pumpkins. Another night of becoming something else, of facing that which scares us. The crunch of leaves underfoot. The colors of fall. The chill in the air. There's nothing like Halloween. As a kid, I couldn't wait for my dad to get home so we could go trick-or-treating. Always proudly wearing my[...]
Oh, hello there, It's been a while since we had a good chat. Too long, if you ask me. I took some time off. My brain got a little twisted but I'm back. I spent this week thinking about what I wanted to chat about. The obvious would be Halloween. It is, after all, nearly here. So I started checking out cool Halloween movies that flew under the radar and googling weird Hall[...]
You wake up alone, locked in an empty room. You lift up the phone from its cradle, and a scratchy voice intones, “All that you touch, you change.” The message repeats, no matter how many times you try to use the phone. It’s flat. Insistent. Its cadence is off, like something trying to sound human. So begins Cube Escape: Seasons, the first in a series of surreal horror games set a[...]
If you've been following the blog or our #FrighteningFall hashtag on Twitter, you know the Midnight Society is reading Stephen and Owen King's Sleeping Beauties for our fall book club. Since the book is broken into two main parts, we've decided to have two book chats about it! So, we'll be discussing Part 1 of Sleeping Beauties on October 30th at 9pm EST, using the hashtags #MidnightBoo[...]
I have a slight obsession with horror movies. Whenever I end up at a store, it is impossible for me to pass the movie section. Those big bins filled with cheap movies? Yeah...I lose hours of my life. Always on the look out for horror movies I haven't seen, for scary tales I haven't heard of, it has become a problem. The horror movie drawer is full...and yet, I buy. October is the perfect[...]
Hello, darlings! It's been far too longed since I've graced this graveyard. I had an unfortunate turn of events that knocked me off kilter for a while, but I'm back. And what better way to return to the crypt than to bring a touch of fresh meat with me? Though she's no stranger to the dark side, I'm still absolutely thrilled to have her grace our little corner of the woods. Welcom[...]
Stephen King was a gateway to horror for me. I grew up loving monster movies and doing school reports on Edgar Allen Poe and the Salem witch trials. Then, at ten years old, my uncle took me to see The Shining. I pestered my mom until she let me read her movie tie-in paperback, and I was captivated. I’d never read anything like Stephen King before. I fell completely into the worlds he bu[...]
What better day of the year to release a new book than on Friday, October 13th? I can't think of one, which is why my new novella Chasing the King in Yellow will be dropping this Friday on Amazon and Drive Thru Fiction! Chasing the King in Yellow is in many ways a sequel to the first book in the Parted Veil series, Courting the King in Yellow. After that first book, that story of Frank[...]
I have dipped my toe into the new book Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King. If you didn't know, some of our Midnighters are reading the newest Stephen King release for our celebration of #FrighteningFall. Go read the initial post here. Stephen King...It's easier to list the books I haven't read than have. I have shelves in my bookcase dedicated to his work. I belong to t[...]