The 2nd Annual Fright Night Film Fest takes place August 17 – 19, 2007 at the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center in Louisville, KY. The Festival is a Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy-based Film Festival including feature length films, short films, and animated films,...
Steve Vernon has announced the release of his new themed collection Nothing To Lose, three stories framed around the dark adventures of one of the scuzziest and hardest super hero characters you’ve ever met, Captain Nothing. Illustrated by Alex McVey. So you...
You can catch a new interview with Ellen Datlow on the Writers’ Block blog. For those who may not know, Ellen Datlow is an award-winning editor of multiple anthologies, including The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror (with Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. The anthology...
Gauntlet Press has reported that Richard Christian Matheson’s Created By is just about a month or so away from shipping. If you haven’t read his first (and so far only) novel, you’re in for a treat. It’s one of the most innovative horror novels...
[Note: This is an expanded reprint of a column which originally appeared in the March 6, 2003, issue of Hellnotes.] The old adage that one needs a horrible life in order to write effective horror fiction does not apply to M.R. James. Unlike Poe, Lovecraft, Blackwood,...
