HWA members may now SUBMIT RECOMMENDATIONS for the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards®. Members, please refresh your memory of the recommendation rules before submitting. Non-members are invited to browse the regularly updated Recommended Reading List for works published in 2013 (and previous years as well). Click Here to Read Horror Writers Association[...]
GalleyCat has gathered free samples of the scariest books of the year, those on the Bram Stoker Award® final ballot. Pick your next read from this list. Click Here to Read Horror Writers Association Blog by admin Tweet
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Final Ballot for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA (see www.horror.org ) is the premiere writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with nearly 1000 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987 (see http://www.horror.org/stokers.htm ). The[...]
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is pleased to announce the Preliminary Ballots for the 2012 Bram Stoker Awards®. The HWA is the premiere writers organization in the horror and dark fiction genre, with over 800 members. We have presented the Bram Stoker Awards in various categories since 1987. The HWA Board and the Bram Stoker[...]
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Amber Benson as Media Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards® Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Amber Benson is multi-talented – she is a writer, director and actor. She currently writes the Calliope Reaper-Jones series for Ace/Roc and[...]
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Bruce Boston as Poet Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Bruce Boston is the author of fifty books and chapbooks, including the novels The Guardener’s Tale and Stained Glass Rain. His poetry[...]
Reservations* for Stoker Weekend 2013, including World Horror Con, are now open at the Hotel Monteleone! One of only three Literary Landmark Hotels in the country, the Hotel Monteleone is located in the historic French Quarter of New Orleans, at this hotel you’ll find history around every corner. The Stoker rate of $ 159 per[...]
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Jonathan Maberry as a Guest of Honor for the Bram Stoker Awards™ Weekend 2013, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Jonathan Maberry is a New York Times best-selling author, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner, and Marvel Comics writer. His novels include Assassin’s[...]
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) is proud to announce Jeff Strand will emcee the 2013 Bram Stoker Awards Banquet and also act as Toastmaster at the World Horror Convention 2013. Both of these events are part of the Bram Stoker Awards Weekend, to be held in New Orleans from 13-16 June 2013. Jeff has emceed[...]
Oxford Companion to English Literature describes Ramsey Campbell as “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. He has been given more awards than any other writer in the field, including the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Horror Writers Association (HWA), the Grand Master Award of the World Horror Convention and the Living Legend Award of the[...]
Bizarre requests for Britain's foreign office. The writer has posted comments on this article Kounteya SinhaKounteya Sinha, TNN | May 18, 2013, 05.37 AM IST. Tweet. Share on Linkedin. Comments. More …See all stories on this topic » Click Here to Read Google Alerts – bizarre by Tweet
Featuring Guest Host Andrew Leman & the Vocal Stylings of Sean Branney Selected music by The Spider Translator In the spirit of our story, Mr. Fifer chose to host via portable phone from deep below the earth. Let’s all watch Out of Mind And don’t forget to check out… The Whisperer in Darkness! Next up:[...]
To an arachnophobe they may seem universally creepy, but spiders can actually be nice. One strange species of spider, Anelosimus studiosus, consists of individuals of two distinct personalities: docile and aggressive. And new research finds that, in this species at least, nice guys finish last. A. studiosus is found in both North and South America, where[...]
This week we explore what it’s like to deal with the elderly in The Terrible Old Man. Extra thanks to our reader – Mr. Douglas Sarine of Ask a Ninja! Note: I forgot to mention a cool animation that adapts this story! Check it out! -Chris. Next week: The Tree & The Cats of Ulthar! http://www.hppodcraft.com/podcasts/09_09_10_hppodcraft_ep010.mp3[...]
Watching a butterfly emerge from its chrysalis is enough to evoke wonder even from the most world-weary of souls. But rarely do we get to see behind the scenes of the pupa’s transformation. Current methods rely on dissection of the chrysalis, or at best, staining the critter (thereby killing it) and using X-rays to look[...]
The fish detect magnetic fields and use them to orient themselves along a North-South axis. Click Here to Read Living World by Tweet
H.P. Lovecraft is all of those things, but a master of his craft is not necessarily an easy man to live with, and genius often goes unrecognized in it's time, or at least unrewarded financially. How does one love the man like Lovecraft? A man who …See all stories on this topic » Click Here[...]
Activity in a particular part of our brains while listening to new music reveals whether we enjoy the tune, and even how much we’d be willing to pay to hear it again. Neural activity in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), part of the brain’s ventral striatum, can predict how much a listener likes a particular piece[...]
Lately, a lot of folks have asked me to post on the blog. I do this as a service, and it does not mean I personally support the process. The blog is about Lovecraft and his legacy, and part of the second decade of the 21st century is about social networking and how Lovecraft’s legacy[...]
Most of us would agree that harming others on purpose and for no reason is immoral. Social scientists have long assumed that marketplaces are to blame for many a compromised moral. There’s no shortage of historical examples: take the slave trade, or buying indulgences from the church, for instance. Now science has weighed in to confirm[...]
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