Monster Authors: Where to Submit Your Short Fiction + Prompts
Looking for places to send your monster stories? We’ve posted links to some places looking for urban fantasy, horror stories, science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction.
Jude S. Walko reimagines the legend of the headless horseman: “I have always had a penchant for good horror.”
Filmmaker Jude S. Walko’s novel The Unhallowed Horseman reimagines the classic “Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Walko offers a special video message and reads an excerpt from his novel. In our interview, Walko explains how his background as a filmmaker impacts his fiction, and the personal spin he brought to the story.
15 Best Horror Authors: Dead and Alive
Find out more about some of horror fiction’s most well-known and beloved authors. Including info and links for Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Dean Koontz, Anne Rice, and more!
Top 70 Horror Authors and Their Work (According to Google)
Who are YOUR favorite horror authors? We’ve got behind-the-scenes info on popular horror writers Stephen King, Tananarive Due, Mary Shelley, Koji Suzuki, Ray Bradbury, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and many more!
Flashback: Owl Goingback—Bram Stoker winner “Crota”
CROTA is a magical tale blending elements of mystery, suspense, and Native American mythology. The novel won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel, and was one of four finalists in the Best Novel category.
75+ Urban Fantasy Writers Who Aren’t White UPATED
Including L.A. Banks, Maurice Broaddus, Jessica Cage, Zoraida Córdova, Owl Goingback, Nalo Hopkinson, N. K. Jemisin, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Shweta Taneja, Kenesha Williams, and more.
Stephen King, Richard Chizmar: Gwendy’s Final Task (Gwendy’s Button Box Trilogy #3) - Spotlight
Evil forces seek to possess the button box and it is up to Senator Gwendy Peterson to keep it from them. At all costs. But where can you hide something from such powerful entities?
Seanan McGuire: Where the Drowned Girls Go [Spotlight]
She knew from the beginning that there would be children she couldn’t save…
There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again.
Anne Rice & Christopher Rice: Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris (Spotlight)
The gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary bestselling author, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war.
RIP Anne Rice, whose 1976 Interview With the Vampire is “responsible for the image of vampires that dominates pop culture today”
Anne Rice, Author of Interview With The Vampire, Dead at 80. AMC is working on an “Anne Rice Universe of interconnected TV series adaptations.
Delizhia Jenkins: Sanctum: A Last Vampire Huntress Novel [Spotlight]
With their sources of blood having reached depletion, vampires scour the earth in search of more blood. And when they find it, will this broken Huntress stand and fight to protect what is left of humanity? Or, is the only way to save the world she was sworn to protect is stand and watch it burn?
Anne Rice: AMC “Anne Rice Universe” Closer to Reality With 2 Series, Vampire Chronicles, Mayfair Witches
Interview With A Vampire Series Scheduled For Production, Writers’ Room Opened For Lives Of The Mayfair Witches
Horror Q&A: Jude S. Walko (The Unhallowed Horseman)
“I have long been enamored with the Headless Horseman character. The Horseman is the perfect anti-hero that has gripped the imagination of children and adults alike.”
Horror Q & A: Kenneth Bykerk (Something Wicked This Way Rides)
“I live in the Old West…This lets me delve into the history of my home while bringing back to life the ruins that surround me.” Author Kenneth Bykerk explains his personal connection to the Old West, reveals his inspiration for this story, and shares what he’s writing next.
Author Q&A Kiran Manral on More Things in Heaven and Earth: “Sometimes trying to get closure can open fresh wounds.”
The author talks about the ideas fueling her novel, her mission as an author, and why her fiction helps readers to better understand the female perspective.
Horror Q&A: J.B. Dane (Something Wicked This Way Rides)
“Well, there was plenty about the Old West that was horrific to begin with. It was a harsh landscape just waiting to kill you, and if it didn't get you, then the people whose territory you were invading took their turn, and nearly everyone walked around with a loaded gun.”
Horror Q&A: Peter Prellwitz (Something Wicked This Way Rides)
“The isolation and mystic the Old West provides is the perfect background for horror.” Something Wicked This Way Rides features some two-dozen authors exploring the Old West through stories featuring the wicked, supernatural, demonic and just plain weird. Author Peter Prellwitz contributes the macabre tale “Partners.” In this interview, he discusses his story, the juxtaposition of westerns with weird tales, and how “Partners” compares with his usual fiction.
Horror Q&A: Lawrence Dagstine (Something Wicked This Way Rides)
“I’ve written traditional western stuff in the past, but never molded two genres together to give it a speculative flavor...” In this interview, the author discusses writing Horror vs. Westerns, the inspiration behind his story, and compares it with his other fiction.
Horror Q&A: John A. Frochio (Something Wicked This Way Rides)
“I enjoy writing things that are different… I couldn't simply write a Western story without some kind of twist.” In this interview, John shares the inspiration for his story, and explains his favorite part about mashing up horror with the Old West…
Horror Q&A Steve Gladwin: “Slight edge of black comedy”
“I write a lot of dark things in my work, but my short stories recently have been more quirky and off-beat. What all my work does have in common is that slight edge of black comedy and it's sometimes very dark.” In this interview, the author talks about writing to music, his unpublished ghost stories, and his upcoming projects.