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This is one of my
favourite times of the year. A time when the darker weather comes
(though it hasn’t come enough here in Sacramento yet), the days
grow shorter, and a post-harvest haze permeates the air filtering out
the sunlight by a few layers
and giving off a burnt aroma. Darker days (literally darker,
that is) call for darker stories and events that grow out of the
horror genre. We like to take on the forms
of our favourite creatures of darkness through costuming. Well, as
much as I love the season of the witch, more commonly known as
Halloween, I couldn’t come up with anything relevant to write about
for this post. Yet it’s still early in the season but it will fly
by faster than a witch on her broom or a vampire bat fleeing the
oncoming dawn. So I dug up this list of six phantastic blog finds for
your horror-reading zombie appetite. But there will be a special
Halloween treat for you (and maybe even a trick) by the weekend of
Halloween as there has been in past years here at the Fantastic Site.
But for now, check out these groovy ghoulish links!
The HorrorWriters Association’s Halloween Haunts: This is a seasonal
series of blog posts by some of the Association’s authors who give
their personal takes on Halloween.
Season of theWitch at Castle Macabre: This is author Michelle Miller’s
seasonal blog read-along series. Her first read is Edgar Allen Poe’s
“Masque of the Red Death”.
“Poe Read-Along- The Mask of the Red Death”: She talks more about her
Read-Along, Poe’s story of a demonic plague and even Poe himself
here. She even has a small but interesting paragraph on the 1960s
Vincent Price film adaptation and how you can watch it for free!
“Witchy Peril-‘Masque’ and other Short Stories”, The Writerly Reader:
This post by another author who visit’s Michelle’s above post
also discusses here impression of “Masque of the Red Death”. She also goes over other short horror stories, including one by H.P. Lovecraft.
“Salem’sLot Read-Along”, Gather Together Read: This blog is
now reading one of Stephen King’s earliest novels. You may be able
to catch up with them if you head on over now to find out where
they’re at in this creepy read.
Blaze McRob’s“Haunted Halloween Party”: Horror author Blaze McRob is
producing a series of blog posts for the season where you can
participate in contests to win prizes as well as discover horror fiction writers you
may never heard of before. Even so, they have some really great stories up
their sleeves.
Like I said, I’ll
have my annual Halloween treat here for you by Halloween weekend, and
maybe even a horror book review before that!
Until next time . .
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