HWA Halloween Haunts, Other Posts Scheduled for October

The Horror Writers Association “Halloween Haunts 2013″ celebration begins tomorrow, October 1, on the HWA’s Dark Whispers blog.  A total of nearly fifty guest posts will appear on a schedule of one or two per day up through Halloween itself.  My own particular day on this is October 13 — my lucky number! — with a review of the film of the opera  DRACULA:  ENTRE L’AMOUR ET LA MORTE, complete with directions on how to find translations of the songs in English.  The film has been reviewed as well on this site on May 31 last year, but, for those who missed it then, October 13 may be just in time to order a DVD for yourself to enjoy with friends, along with candy and other appropriate refreshments, on Halloween night.

October, in fact, will be a big month for guest appearances for me as it’s shaping up.  Not only will that film be featured on the HWA blog on the 13th, another film review by me is scheduled to open this year’s WHERE THE DEAD FEAR TO TREAD (a.k.a. M.R. GOTT’S CUTIS ANSERINA) annual Halloween Celebration (cf. September 23).  Of which more, and a link, should appear tomorrow.  And then, on October 21, THE TEARS OF ISIS will be featured in Kate Hill’s HAUNTED LIBRARY — for more on Kate, who we’ve met before, see August 13 this year, as well as October 1 2011 on which the plug for the Halloween season was my poetry book VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE) — and, while the exact date hasn’t yet been set, yesterday I completed an interview with Cassie Carnage to appear in October on CASSIE’S HOUSE OF HORROR.

Back to the HWA’s Halloween Haunts, below is a messed up (that’s the way the internet works sometimes) but hopefully still readable schedule of events.  A facebook page has also been set up for late-breaking updates, including giveaways, which can be reached by pressing here, while for the blog itself, the HWA site can be found  by pressing here (of which I might add, scroll down to where it says “explore” on the right side, then click “Blog” to discover all sorts of other neat things as well).

DATE     POST     CONTRIBUTOR     GIVEAWAY

1-Oct     Welcome to Halloween Haunts 2013     James Chambers     one print copy each of The Dead Bear Witness, Tears of Blood, Three Chords of Chaos

2-Oct     Personal Experience in Halloween Fiction     Lisa Morton     N/A

3-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     L.L. Soares     N/A

4-Oct     Ghost in My House     Cat Winters     one print copy of In the Shadow of Blackbirds

4-Oct     Thats My Boy     Matthew Warner     N/A

5-Oct     Anti Christ Devil Children     J. Thorn     one personalized e-book; winner’s choice of title and format

5-Oct     Why Do You Write That Stuff     Thomas Smith     one print copy of Something Stirs

6-Oct     More than Just Candy     David B. Riley     one print copy of Gunslingers & Ghost Stories; one print copy of Steampunk Trails

7-Oct     Candy Corn Memories     Amy Grech     N/A

7-Oct     Halloween in the Hudson Valley     J.G. Faherty     N/A

8-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     Gene O’Neill     N/A

9-Oct     Halloween Hootenanny     Greg McWhorter     N/A

10-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     Lucy Snyder     N/A

10-Oct     Why I Write Horror     Carl Alves     one signed copy of Blood Street

11-Oct     Beware Jersey Devil     Carol MacCallister     N/A

12-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     Marge Simon     N/A

12-Oct     Night Terrors     Heather L. Reid     one print copy of Pretty Dark Nothing

13-Oct     Dracula: Entre l’Amor et la Morte     James Dorr     N/A

14-Oct     Halloween Animated Specials     Ed Erdelac     N/A

15-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     Rocky Wood     N/A

16-Oct     Halloween-What First Comes to Your Mind at the Thought?     John G. Rees     one print copy each of anoxic zone, Halocline, Black Tide, and Out of Stone (separate winners)

16-Oct     Halloween as a Kid     Michael J. McCann     five digital Kindle copies of The Ghost Man

17-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     Lisa Morton     1/2 page ad in 1/31/13 issue of Dark Discoveries, medium sidebar ad on Hellnotes.com, two sets, courtesy Journalstone

18-Oct     Opening the Vein     John Palisano     one e-book copy of Nerves

19-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     Greg Chapman     N/A

19-Oct     Coming Home to Horror     Rena Mason     one print copy of The Evolutionist, one print copy of East End Girls

20-Oct     Sunglasses At Night     Julie Campbell     one print copy of Steampunk Trails, one e-book Sabaska’s Tale

20-Oct     Reclaiming Horror     Annie Neugebauer     N/A

21-Oct     Traditions     Marge Simon     N/A

21-Oct     Halloween Is Every Day     Johnny Worthen     N/A

22-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     Jerad Walters     N/A

22-Oct     EquineAnatomy     Kenneth W. Cain     one print copy of Fresh Cut Tales

23-Oct     Plastic Fangs and Cotton Fur     Mark Onspaugh     one Netgalley review copy of The Faceless One, one Hydra mug

24-Oct     Distances     Marty Young     one print copy of 809 Jacob Street

25-Oct     The Slumbering One     Jinx Strange     N/A

26-Oct     Halloween Should Be Banned     Mick Sims     one print copy of Stronghold, Shelter, Demon Eyes, Black Cathedral, and Night Souls

27-Oct     Halloween Stories     Steve Rasnic Tem     N/A

28-Oct     A Walk in the Mists     Keith Deininger     one print copy of The New Flesh

28-Oct     Autumn People     Loren Rhodes     one digital copy of Wish You Were Here

29-Oct     Stoker Spotlight Interview with     Mort Castle     N/A

30-Oct     Haunted Halloween Party     Joe Augustyn     N/A

30-Oct     That Restless Halloween Feeling     John Mantooth     N/A

31-Oct     My Personal Haunted House     John F.D. Taff     one print copy, one digital copy of The Bell Witch