Halloween Festival: Interview with Bill Sherman, Commentator and Comics Review Editor at Blogcritics Magazine

Pop culture critic, blogger and commentator Bill Sherman is the founder of Pop Culture Gadabout, a blog focusing on comics, music, TV and film criticism. He's also the Comics Review Editor at Blogcritics Magazine. In this interview, Sherman talks about his blog, the reason why zombies are the 'hard-core champions' of all horror fiends, and what's popular in horror books [...]

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Halloween Festival: Interview with Karen L. Syed, Owner of Echelon Press

Started in 2009, Echelon Press publishes short stories, novellas and novels in various genres. Under their new imprint 'Quake', they also publish fiction for middle graders and young adults. At present, Echelon publishes two paperback novels a month as well as one or two of their popular short story and novella downloads. Here to talk about the company and [...]

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Halloween Festival: Interview with C. Sanchez-Garcia, author of Mortal Engines and The Color of the Moon

C. Sanchez-Garcia is the author of the novellas, Mortal Engines and The Color of the Moon. This latter ghost story was deeply influenced by the famous, old Japanese ghost story of 'Hoichi The Earless'. In this fascinating interview, Garcia talks about his work, the Japanese influence, and compares the Kwaidanshu ghost stories of the East to the traditional Western ones.
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Halloween Festival: Interview with Del Howison, owner of Dark Delicacies Bookstore

Dark Delicacies is located in Burbank, California. Run by Del and Sue Howison, this popular horror bookstore has been featured in the Sci-Fi Channel, The New York Times, Daily News, Fangoria and Bookcase magazines. Besides books, the store sells gifts, dvd's, signed first editions, and scary novelties for the horror enthusiast. Here to talk about the store [...]

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Halloween Festival: Interview with J.R. Turner

Multi-genre author J.R. Turner dabbles into many genres–romance, suspense, character-driven action, horror, and now young adult. Her new upcoming series, Extreme Haunting, soon from Echelon Press, features a smart, tomboy skater heroine out to fight evil. In this interview, Turner talks about the first novel in the series, DFF: Dead Friends Forever, her love for the supernatural, her favorite [...]

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Halloween Festival: Interview with Horror Blogger & Commentator Iloz Zoc

Horror fan, blogger and commentator Iloz Zoc is the founder of Zombos Closet of Horror Blog and League of Tana Tea Drinkers. He's also a regular contributor to Blogcritics. In this insightful, fascinating interview, Zoc talks about his blogs, the best and worse horror movies ever made, what makes a scary movie really terrifying, and the ever-lasting appeal of [...]

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Halloween Festival: Interview with Nathan Rosen, Editor of MicroHorror

MicroHorror is a new ezine featuring horror stories in various subgenres–traditional, modern, gothic, dark fantasy. The requirement? They have to be well written and be 666 words or shorter–talk about a clever gimmick for a horror magazine! Here to talk about MicroHorror and how it came about is editor Nathan Rosen. Rosen shares his formula for a great horror story [...]

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Halloween Festival: Interview with Simon Gosden, Owner of Fantastic Literature Limited

Fantastic Literature is UK's largest online supplier of out of print, rare and used books in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, thrillers, ghost stories, weird tales and the macabre. Currently, their store has over 19,000 titles for sale in paperback, hardcover, and magazine formats. Through their Ebay shop, signed limited editions of hard-to-find books are available, [...]

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Halloween Festival: Interview with Gordon Clemmons, Editor of Shadeworks

Today on the second installment of my Spine Chillin' interviews, it is my pleasure to introduce you to Gordon Clemmons, editor of the new dark speculative ezine, Shadeworks. Clemmons talks about what makes a great horror story and shares with us the most common mistakes he often encounters in submissions. He accepts only the highest quality stories [...]

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On the Spotlight: PROSPERITY, A GHOST STORY

The Blurb:
Amanda Thorne is an embattled clairvoyant, who refuses to believe in God or the afterlife, even when the ghost of her murdered husband confronts her from his grave. More ghosts confront her when she finds herself stranded in a tiny town in Arizona.
Two of them mistake her for a prominent woman who was murdered [...]

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