How a Universal Monsters bit part raised the question about the Creature of the Black Lagoon facing one of the biggest action movie stars of all time. The result is “1950s sci-fi with a touch of James Bond for the finale.”

Watch Stephen King read from his new book, Holly. The horror author shares how he came to care so much for a walk-on character that he kept bringing her back. We also have more info about the book and about King’s epic work as an author.

Charlaine Harris is currently on a blog tour to celebrate the fifth installment in her Gunnie Rose series. She returns to the gritty and magical world of the fractured former United States. Lizbeth and her younger half-sister Felicia have finally been reunited, along with Lizbeth’s husband Eli and his younger brother, Peter.

The award-winning author of bestselling novels, short fiction, and comics, Joe Hill shares how he starts a book, what makes the best horror stories, and why some horror films just don’t work.

Bram Stoker claimed that parts of Dracula were real. The author wrote Dracula in the 1890s, generating ideas based on both folklore and history.

Holly Gibney returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. “I could never let Holly Gibney go,” King says.

A look at all the books in the series about a werewolf who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. “I realized that vampires and werewolves and other supernatural creatures living in the modern world would need their own advice shows,” the author says, “because Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil just wouldn’t know what to do with their problems.”

Author Christopher Flowers shares how being an English teacher impacts his stories, his unique spin on horror fiction, and his pet peeves that he’s seen other writers do.

A look behind how these horror/mystery books impacted all the popular writer’s work. “My childhood trauma demonstrated to me very bluntly that the world was not at all benign.” Find out more about the author—and all the books in this important series.

Linking to news, reviews, and interviews with the urban fantasy author of the Hollows series. “It is very important to me that the series doesn’t just peter out.”

Looking over news, reviews, and interviews with this popular horror author. “As I’m writing a cool monster,” LaValle says, “often halfway through I go, ‘What’s the monster’s point of view? Is it really a monster?’”

Horror comedy author Jeff Strand is interviewed by the Drinking With Authors Podcast. “I self-identify as a horror writer who puts lots of jokes in the books.” Strand is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of more than 50 books, including his novelization of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

Featuring links to news, reviews, and interviews with the urban fantasy author. “I always have more ideas than I have time to write,” says the author best known for her werewolf Kitty Norville series.

Featuring news, reviews, and interviews with the popular urban fantasy authors who write the Kate Daniels series, the Innkeeper Chronicles, The Edge series, and The Hidden Legacy series.

The debut novel of Whitley Strieber, The Wolfen (1978), tells the story of two police detectives in New York City who are involved in the investigation of suspicious deaths across the city…

“I have a lot of nightmares. I have gotten into the habit of writing them down.” Watch this conversation with horror writers S.A. Barnes, Christopher Golden, and Anne Heltzel as they discuss their books and the appeals of reading horror novels.

On a blog tour promoting her new dark fantasy heist novel Thick As Thieves, author M.J. Kuhn tells Monster Complex about the inspirations behind her magical crime series, shares her love of the genre(s), and reveals what she has enjoyed by other storytellers.

A writer in a variety of categories, Clive Barker’s horror short story collections began to attract an audience for his fiction. “Horror stories tend to work very well in the short form,” Barker says, “because they’re a slap across the face.” Find out more about the books in the series.

A look at the book series where F. Paul Wilson explores the evil of man—and the supernatural evil that man keeps alive. “I can’t imagine not writing. If I can intro you to a different way of looking at life and society than you were allowed to see in the state-run schools, fine.”

Christopher Golden is an author of horror, fantasy, and suspense fiction. He explains his favorite research story, and reveals the inspiration for his Ben Walker novel Red Hands.