It’s Women in Horror Month 2020 and now, more than ever, so many talented women writers are contributing to the genre that it’s hard to choose books to read for the event. I’m going to add to that list two new offerings that will be hitting bookstores later this month: The Garden of Bewitchment by…
Tag: Scary Stories
Midnight in the Graveyard, ed. by Kenneth W. Cain
Around three months ago, I saw a notice of the upcoming anthology, Midnight in the Graveyard, from Silver Shamrock Press. The book featured a highly talented group of contemporary horror authors, including Kealan Patrick Burke, Elizabeth Massie, Chad Lutzke, Catherine Cavendish, and many others. I marked it on my calendar and began counting the days…
Prey
Dustin pulled over and hit the brakes. His car, a rusted out but still functional ’78 Olds Cutlass Supreme, screeched to a halt. He wasted no time getting out of his safety belt. The girl turned her head to look at him as she darted across the lawn of an old house with faded green…
Interview With Elizabeth Massie
Elizabeth Massie is a two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning and Scribe Award-winning author of novels, short fiction, media-tie ins, and nonfiction. Her novels and collections include Sineater, Hell Gate, Desper Hollow, Wire Mesh Mothers, Homeplace, Afraid, Naked on the Edge, Dark Shadows: Dreams of the Dark (co-authored with Mark Rainey), Versailles, The Tudors: King Takes Queen,…
Desper Hollow, by Elizabeth Massie
Desper Hollow was my introduction to Elizabeth Massie’s stories. Oh, I’d come across her name every now and then over the years, knew that she was a fiction author and had written several books, but that was about the limit of my knowledge. Then I had the chance to get my hands on a copy…
Thirteen Reads for Women in Horror Month
A little over a week to go till we begin the 2019 Women in Horror Month, and I am excited! I’ve been compiling a list of books to read, review and promote as part of the celebration of WIHM at my blog. It was a challenge compiling this list; there are just so many talented…
Horror and Me Part One: The Finger From the Chest
Do you remember the first scary story you ever read? Can you remember where you read it? I do. It was a fiendishly frightening tale titled The Calamander Chest by Joseph Payne Brennan, and it was in an anthology titled Ghosts and Ghastlies, edited by Helen Hoke (more on her later). The book was one…
S.D. Vassallo 