Hellnotes reviewer Ray Palen interviews author Seán O’Connor, author of The Blackening: RAY: I mentioned a few times in my review how I noticed the influence of H.P. Lovecraft in THE BLACKENING. Was he indeed an influence and were there any others? SEÁN:...
Editor’s note: The following is a Q&A between reviewer Ray Palen and Adam L. G. Nevill, author of The Reddening. RP: Are ‘the red people’ based on any particular historical people. or are they fully a product of your fertile imagination? AN: The idea...
As Women in Horror Month continues, Trepidatio author S.P. Miskowski gets a killer interview over at Horror Tree! …[T]he horror community has been shining its beam on Miskowski’s work for nearly a decade. Her 2019 novel The Worst is Yet to Come and 2017 novel I...
Editor’s note: Hellnotes reviewer Ray Palen recently reviewed Jeremy Bates’ chilling novel The Sleep Experiment. Now, as an added bonus, Ray and Jeremy had a Q&A session to dig deeper into the book and Jeremy’s creative process. Pleasant dreams! *** RP: THE...
Hell Notes: Regarding the actor who played Barry, Gary and his background as mostly the guy who plays extras in films: Where the heck did he manage to pull this performance out of? Ryan Kruger: I’ve worked with Gary in numerous projects over the years and he’s always...
Daniel Braum’s debut novel The Serpent’s Shadow (Cemetery Dance, 2019) is the story of a family vacation to Cancun during Christmas 1986, which just happens to intersect with an eruption of psychedleic cosmic horror and millenarianistic Serpent/Death cult activity. ...