ARI KIRSCHENBAUM – WRITER/DIRECTOR, “LIVE-EVIL” Do the ‘monster mash’ this Halloween with the home entertainment premiere of horror-comedy Live-Evil, starring Vladimir Kulich (TV’s Vikings), Charlene Amoia (How I Met Your Mother), and horror icon Tony Todd...
HN: Congratulations on your first novel! Let’s start at the beginning: For readers who haven’t yet read the book, The Bone Mother is probably best described as a mosaic novel – it is made up of dozens of vignettes from different characters’ points of view, each of...
HELLNOTES: When did the idea for this collection start coming together? What was the process like of narrowing down your work in order to compile the final table of contents? Lisa Morton: It’s really been only recently – in about the last six or seven years – that I...
David Nickle is an award-winning author and editor, perhaps best known to Hellnotes readers for his work in dark speculative fiction. His newest novel, Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination (ChiZine, 2017) was released last month, continuing the story of a...
HELLNOTES: What can you tell us about your upcoming novel The Wilderness Within? What was your inspiration for this novel about a sentient forest where reality is slippery, to say the least, and what was your process like in writing it? JOHN CLAUDE SMITH: Thank you...
HELLNOTES: Congratulations on your new collection! Between this and your recent novel, I Wish I Was Like You (which we also discussed here), this has been a busy year for you. When did the idea for this collection start coming together? What was the process like of...
