What do you think of when Halloween springs to mind? Kids in costumes at the door, chocolatey treats and fun, spooky music, of course! But, there’s also the storytelling side of this wonderful transition season. It’s a time when fear becomes communal, when the dark is heavier than the light, and we seek out thrills and scares and the unknown. This infusion of adrenaline helps us feel alive before the cold hibernation of winter begins.
And, just like the costumes at your door will vary, our selection of stories and poems will expose and explore the childhood fears in all of us. We invite you to slip into something creepy and comfortable, light the candles, and call up those haunting melodies on Pandora. We want to thank our authors who pen both poem and prose, because they, ultimately, are the ones who remind us that Halloween is so much more than jack-o-lanterns and Three Musketeer bars, it’s about seeing through the veil between the dark and the light, the living and the dead, the blessed and the cursed.
Just in time, Paul Lonardo takes us Inside the Halloween Franchise Multiverse. Will Michael Myers ever die? Check it out here.
Since it’s almost Halloween, you might want to brush up on the various types of ghostly entities. Gary Davis walks us through it. Check it out here.
What’s your favorite scary movie? But, a deeper question is: do you prefer the classic jump scare or the tension-building slow burn? Check out T. Lucien Wright’s take on the topic here.
We are now OPEN to poetry and story submissions for future issues.
What do you think of when Halloween springs to mind? Kids in costumes at the door, chocolatey treats and fun, spooky music, of course! But, there’s also the storytelling side of this wonderful transition season. It’s a time when fear becomes communal, when the dark is heavier than the light, and we seek out thrills and scares and the unknown. This infusion of adrenaline helps us feel alive before the cold hibernation of winter begins.
And, just like the costumes at your door will vary, our selection of stories and poems will expose and explore the childhood fears in all of us. We invite you to slip into something creepy and comfortable, light the candles, and call up those haunting melodies on Pandora. We want to thank our authors who pen both poem and prose, because they, ultimately, are the ones who remind us that Halloween is so much more than jack-o-lanterns and Three Musketeer bars, it’s about seeing through the veil between the dark and the light, the living and the dead, the blessed and the cursed.