Distant Early Warning: Multi-Author Booksigning in Elizabeth City, NC

Coming up on Friday, September 6, 2024, 5:00 p.m. EDT, at Seven Sounds Brewing Company in Elizabeth City, NC — a four-author booksigning event, featuring Elizabeth Broadbent, Patricia Lee Macomber, David Niall Wilson, and an old dude. To promote each author, the brewery will offer a unique brew matched with one of each author's featured works (my featured book is Fugue Devil: Resurgence, but they may wanna leave off the "Resurgence" part, brew-wise). Seven Sounds features both indoor and outdoor seating, and there will be food trucks and other vendors on hand with wares of many varieties.

In addition to Fugue Devil: Resurgence, I'll also have copies of Deathrealm: Spirits, The Monarchs (which is set in Elizabeth City), The Gods of Moab, Blue Devil Island, and others. Stay tuned for more details as the time draws nearer.

“The Spooky Place” at HWA’s “Halloween Haunts” Blog

Every October, the Horror Writers Association posts a series of Halloween-themed blogs written by members. My entry — “The Spooky Place” — is now live. This one chronicles the early days of Martinsville Jaycees’ Haunted Castle in the little community of Koehler, VA, back in the 1970s and ’80s, and how it help boost my fledgling career as a Very Spooky Person.

“As we shuffled forth, I could hear screams, popping, crackling, and other menacing sounds issuing from below. After negotiating a dark, mazelike passage, we began to file through one creepy, expertly rendered chamber after another. There were strobe lights, smoke machines, spiderwebs, tombstones, and roving monsters that crept out of the shadows to grab you. I was enthralled, my little brother terrified...”

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Read the full article at HWA’s
“Halloween Haunts” blog here.

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2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award Winners

Congarters to the 2021 HWA Bram Stoker Award winners!

• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FIRST NOVEL: Piper, Hailey – Queen of Teeth (Strangehouse Books)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A GRAPHIC NOVEL: Manzetti, Alessandro (author) and Cardoselli, Stefano (artist) – The Inhabitant of the Lake (Independent Legions Publishing)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A YOUNG ADULT NOVEL: Waters, Erica – The River Has Teeth (HarperTeen)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LONG FICTION: Strand, Jeff – “Twentieth Anniversary Screening” (Slice and Dice) (Independently published)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT FICTION: Murray, Lee – “Permanent Damage” (Attack From the ’80s) (Raw Dog Screaming Press)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A FICTION COLLECTION: Files, Gemma – In That Endlessness, Our End (Grimscribe Press)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A SCREENPLAY: Flanagan, Mike; Flanagan, James; and Howard, Jeff – Midnight Mass, Season 1, Episode 6: “Book VI: Acts of the Apostles” (Intrepid Pictures)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A POETRY COLLECTION: Sng, Christina; Yuriko Smith, Angela; Murray, Lee; and Flynn, Geneve – Tortured Willows: Bent. Bowed. Unbroken. (Yuriko Publishing)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN AN ANTHOLOGY: Datlow, Ellen – When Things Get Dark: Stories Inspired by Shirley Jackson (Titan Books)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN NON-FICTION: Knost, Michael – Writers Workshop of Horror 2 (Hydra Publications)
• SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN SHORT NON-FICTION: Yuriko Smith, Angela – “Horror Writers: Architects of Hope” (The Sirens Call, Halloween 2021, Issue 55) (Sirens Call Publications)
• LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT: Fletcher, Jo; Holder, Nancy; Suzuki, Koji
• SPECIALTY PRESS: Valancourt Books
• THE RICHARD LAYMON PRESIDENT’S AWARD: Saulson, Sumiko
• THE SILVER HAMMER AWARD: Wetmore, Kevin J.
• MENTOR OF THE YEAR: Knost, Michael