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Something amazing, yet somehow terrifying, has happened. I’ve made it into the Finalists list for the Bram Stoker Awards 2015 alongside Joe Mynhardt for my work on Horror 101: The Way Forward. Joe asked if I’d contribute a piece for the book about a year before I joined…
Here we have a new story penned by David Owain Hughes, an author with a love of all things close-to-the-bone & grotesque. House inspector under inspection Jimmy read, as he glanced over the newspaper on his boss’ desk. The guy’s name was Archie.…
Current calls for submissions The Magazines… Cemetery Dance…go for it! Dark Tales is the place for the more unique works, “well written, entertaining science fiction, horror and dark fantasy stories with believable characters and page-turning plots.”…
Once in a while, a blogger will strike up a friendship when getting a piece together. I’m lucky to have had this happen many times over & have met some truly wonderful members of this genre that are now firm friends. Lawrence Santoro was one…
I received a notification whilst on Facebook a few days ago that I was tagged in a post & the first few words named me, ironically being a somewhat bizarre day I still clicked onto it. Blaze McRob had written a piece on his site. It…
Hello & welcome to The HHHB! Go grab a drink & get comfy…we’re in for a ride here. EA: Hi Aaron, welcome to The HHHB! *motions towards chair* Please make yourself at home, just ignore the screams. *winks* To help the readers get to…
Some of you who know me over on Facebook may know about my work with Joe Mynhardt over at Crystal Lake Publishing, combine that with the release of Horror 101: The Way Forward & now I have an author page. So if you click here you can cringe…
Hello & welcome to the ‘Stuck on You’ blog tour! As someone who knows Jasper Bark I should know that I ought to expect the unexpected. How could I describe the enigmatic man himself? Well, he’s one of the most…
The term “pulp” lately is something of a double-edged sword. Say it in a phrase like “the old pulps” and people get wistful, pining for the days when the pulps existed as struggling outlets of experimental genre literature. But say it in a phrase…
Women in Horror Month is a time of celebration…though we’re here for the rest of year too! I’ve popped on to let you all know that I’m the editor for The Horror Writers Association‘s month long special. For each day of the month…
Hi Lauren and thank you doing this interview for The Horrifically Horrifying Horror Blog. I’m Tony and I’d just like to ask a few questions related to your work and the horror genre in general. TheHHHB: Traditionally backwater horror, from Deliverance to Wrong Turn, has…
It’s my pleasure to present this week’s feature special…‘Fear the Reaper’. This is a superb collection brought together by the owner & editor of Crystal Lake, Joe Mynhardt. With a whole host of contributions from writers across the range of the horror genre, any reader is…
Introduction by Frank Duffy (Summer, 1987, Rainford, Merseyside, Northwest England) It was the summer I turned sixteen, the summer my secondary school education crawled to a graceless conclusion, the summer I dreamed of a future cloaked in the murk of ambiguity. At least it wasn’t…
Today is a sad day for the horror community. The great James Herbert has passed away aged only 69. This OBE awarded Master of the genre was Britain’s first true Horror BestSeller. The Rats was an outstanding feat in the early days of modern horror…
There’s a saying floating around the Internet that says ‘writers be crazy’, or as the ever eloquent Chuck Wendig puts it ‘writers be fucking moonbats’…well there are some writers that go a step further than this, there are some writers that should be locked into…
We all like to talk about nipples…I mean ourselves. Who doesn’t enjoy being the centre of the orgy…I mean attention. But sometimes our readers don’t want to read about our testicles…I mean boring lives. *sigh* I think I’d better explain what’s happening here. A ‘Freudian…
Pain noun \’pān\ The acutely unpleasant physical discomfort experienced by somebody who is violently struck, injured, or ill. Whilst the above is a technically correct definition of the word pain, it will not do for your horror novel. Pain can’t be a scratch, a graze,…
Characters, family, friends…let’s face it; you’ve hurt a lot of people in your lifetime. And the worst thing is – you’ll probably hurt a lot more. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure you’re a nice person (well, some of you are), you might even be…
Like every good psychopath knows, one cut is never enough. Why settle for a quick slash to the jugular when you can take pleasure in hundreds of satisfying, spun-out, shallow cuts? But enough about my perverted weekend hobbies…this is about your writing! Cut that motherfucker,…
It seems to me that people don’t want the truth. When the waitress at IHOP asks “How ya doin’, Honey?” she wants to hear “Fine,” or “Very well, thank you.” Not “Well, my arthritis is acting up,” or “My trial starts tomorrow,” or “Every…