Halloween Special: Buy 1 ebook, get 2 free!

Dear Readers, I’d like to announce the release of my paranormal suspense novel, EMBRACED BY THE SHADOWS, now available on Kindle for $2.99. Here’s a blurb: In a bazaar in Istanbul one evening, ten-year-old Alana Piovanetti sees a man standing in the shadows. He smiles, and over time she convinces herself that it was just [...]

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Interview with Horror Author Vincent Hobbes

Vincent Hobbes was born in Dallas, TX in 1975. He has been actively writing since he was fifteen years old. His roots lay in horror, but he has recently branched out into other genres. In 2007, he was published. The Contrived Senator was the first book in a fantasy series. In 2008, he released Exiles, [...]

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Is the Devil Running for President?

The next presidential election is getting near… and handsome, charismatic Senator Howard Stark wants to become president. There’s only one problem: He’s possessed by Sargatanas, a powerful demon who wants to unleash all evil on earth. To make things worse, Stark’s assistant happens to be a malevolent, highly-intelligent practitioner of the black arts, and she’ll [...]

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Meet Heather Ingemar, author of Requiem

Happy Halloween! Please welcome my special guest, author Heather S. Ingemar. Heather has loved to play with words since she was little, and it wasn’t long until she started writing her own stories. Termed “a little odd” by her peers, she took great delight in exploring tales with a gothic flair, and to this day, [...]

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Book review: Book of Shadows, by Alexandra Sokoloff

Book of Shadows By Alexandra Sokoloff St. Martin’s Press Hardcover June 8, 2010 ISBN 978-0-312-38471-5 Supernatural thriller Author’s website: www.alexandrasokoloff.com Every time I pick up a book by Alexandra Sokoloff, I know I’m in for a good treat. I was not disappointed with this her last supernatural thriller: Book of Shadows kept me reading late [...]

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Featured Interview: Horror Author J.F. Gonzalez

My special guest this Halloween is horror writer J. F. Gonzalez, author of several acclaimed novels of terror and suspense including Clickers (with Mark Williams), Clickers II: The Next Wave (with Brian Keene), Survivor, Bully, Fetish, and many others, as well as over sixty short stories and numerous articles. Gonzalez was kind enough to take [...]

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“Horror Fiction – Ten Cliches to Avoid,” by William Meikle

For anyone thinking about writing in the horror genre, there are certain situations that, over the years, have been done so often that the audience knows exactly what to expect. Using any of these is fine if you’re being post-modern and ironic as in the Scream series, because you can get the audience laughing as [...]

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The Origins of Halloween

Halloween is not only a colourful night of fun, frights, sweets and costumes. It is a full-blown industry, with more than $14 billion spent each year on costumes, decorations, party supplies, candy and other paraphernalia. How did it all get started? The origins of Halloween are quite dark, and go all the way back to [...]

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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 Christine Verstraete, author of THE WITCH TREE

Thanks for stopping at the Dark Phantom today, Christine. How long have you been writing dark stories? For a while now. Funny as while I lean towards mystery first, I always seem to want to write horror. Blame it on Stephen King. Ha! Tell us about your story, The Witch Tree. What inspired it? Jimmy [...]

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