Category: Halloween

• The Uses Of Horror

  We don’t have to understand why art works to enjoy that it works, but as craftspeople it can be helpful to consider how stories function. Most writers enjoy words, so our natural tendency if a story feels wrong is to fiddle with the prose. Sometimes, however, the reason a story isn’t working isn’t because the…

  raven

  September 29, 2025

  Halloween, horror books, monsters, Philosophy of Horror, Philosophy of Writing, Stories, writing

  catharsis, fear, Fiction, Halloween, horror, John Carpenter, monsters, psychology, Raven, story mechanics, writing, writing theory

• Creep It Real: What Readers Want This Season

  What’s the perfect read for the ‘Spooky Season’? For the true horror fans, every season is spooky season. Rain or shine, February or July, there’s always room for something chilling. Horror is our year-round comfort read. But something happens in October. The nights get longer, pumpkins appear on porches, and suddenly even readers who wouldn’t…

  merchakandrea

  September 25, 2025

  For Readers, Halloween, horror books

• Halloween Memories

  As with most kids, I loved Halloween. It was a chance to dress up and pretend I was someone else. Below you see me in my first ever Halloween costume, dressed up as a black cat. The next year I dressed up as Batman and the year after, I really wanted to scare people, so…

  David Lee Summers

  October 31, 2024

  Halloween, Poetry, vampires

  Day of the Dead, Halloween, New Orleans, Pan de Mureto, Poetry, research, vampires