Category: My Words In the Wild
Posts about or closely related to my published or produced work.
Posted on November 7, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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My novel DARLING is now available on Kindle! Amazon / Kindle For more information about DARLING, please visit its site.
Posted on October 31, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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To the Autumn People: `Tis All Hallow’s Eve. The skies are grey and a chill wind blows. I’ve come across a few Halloween treats to offer today and so I thought I’d combine them all into one post. Enjoy! SKELETON FOUND IN OVERTURNED TREE… Continue Reading “Halloween Treats”
Category: March of the Autumn People, My Words In the WildTags: Autumn People, BBC, benjamin kane ethridge, Blair Witch, Bram Stoker Award, Cracked, Dungeon Brain, Ghostwatch, Google, halloween, Hell Manor, Hurricane Sandy, hwa, lisa morton, London Underground, M.R. James, My Words In the Wild, Paranormal Activity, Shining, Skeleton
Posted on October 30, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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I recently got together with friends and fellow authors Lisa Morton, John Palisano, and Jodi Lester to discuss what frightens us, the horror genre, the writing biz, and all sorts of other interesting goodies. Here’s Part 1 of the discussion: Q: What do you… Continue Reading “Roundtable Discussion: The Horror of it all!”
Category: March of the Autumn People, My Words In the Wild, Writing and Other Violent CrimesTags: Bad Moon Books, Brad C. Hodson, Byron, Charles Dickens, Chuck Palahniuk, Clive Barker, Coleridge, Edith Wharton, ghosts, halloween, Harlan Ellison, Hell Manor, Henry James, History of Halloween, horror, horror movies, Jodi Lester, john palisano, Joyce Carol Oates, Kubrick, lisa morton, Midnight Walk, My Words In the Wild, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nerves, Oscar Wilde, Patrick McGrath, Poe, publishing, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shakespeare, Shelley, Silence of the Lambs, Stephen Gregory, The Lovely Bones, The Shining, Toni Morrison, torture porn, Trick or Treat, Truman Capote, Victor Hugo, writing
Posted on October 24, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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Also check out Part 1: Black Hounds and Part 2: A Ghost Story for Halloween Okay, so I admit this one’s a bit of a stretch. The soundtrack to the novel presented as mythology? I’m with you. I’m kinda-sorta pulling a fast one here.… Continue Reading “Darling: The Soundtrack to the Novel – The Mythology of Darling Part 3”
Category: March of the Autumn People, My Words In the Wild, Writing and Other Violent CrimesTags: Amityville Horror, Appalachia, Boston, Coconut Records, Darling Violetta, Death Cab For Cutie, East Tennessee, Genitorturers, halloween, iTunes, John Martyn, John Skipp, johnny cash, Lalo Schifrin, Metallica, Mozart, music, My Words In the Wild, Phillip Glass, Ralph Stanley, Scarling, soundtrack, The Chambers Brothers, The Guy Barker International Quintet, The Rolling Stones, Type O Negative, Velvet Chain, Woodkid
Posted on October 22, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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Every Halloween, the Horror Writers Association runs their “Halloween Haunts” series. Every day, there are a couple of new articles from writers in the field. Head on over and check out my piece on the ghost stories of M.R. James titled “Peculiar Genius.” While… Continue Reading “Guest Post Over at the HWA Blog”
Posted on October 18, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins,… Continue Reading “The March of the Autumn People”
Category: March of the Autumn People, My Words In the Wild, Writing and Other Violent CrimesTags: A History of Halloween, autumn, Autumn People, Bahaus, benjamin kane ethridge, Black & Orange, Blood & Gristle Lambs, Bottled Abyss, Brad C. Hodson, Brad Hodson, Cannibal Corpse, Dead City, Deathflash, Fall, GENE O'NEILL, Greg Chapman, halloween, Hell Manor, horror, JOE MCKINNEY, john palisano, Liquid Fear, lisa morton, michael louis calvillo, Mutated, My Words In the Wild, NATE KENYON, Nerves, October, Ray Bradbury, ROCKY WOOD, SCOTT NICHOLSON, Shadow of the Dark Angel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Sparrow Rock, The Bone Factory, the Burning Times, The October Country, The Red Church, Trick or Treat, Witch Hunts
Posted on October 11, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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My first novel, DARLING, is available from Bad Moon Books. So I thought I’d do a little series on some of the creepy real life legends that make appearances in the novel. `Tis the season, after all… “‘To that Providence, my sons, I hereby… Continue Reading “Black Hounds”
Category: March of the Autumn People, My Words In the Wild, The Poor Man's WikipediaTags: Annwn, Anubis, Bad Moon Books, Black Dogs, Black Hounds, British isles, Bungay, crossroads, England, folklore, ghosts, goddess, Greek, halloween, Hecate, Ireland, legends, magic, My Words In the Wild, mythology, Norse, phantoms, Scotland, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Snickleways, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the Wild Hunt, Underworld, United Kingdom, York
Posted on August 23, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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My first novel, DARLING, will be released soon from Bad Moon Books. To celebrate, I got thoroughly drunk, thrown in jail, shived, married to a fellow inmate, and then released on good behavior. I’ve also created a new page on this site devoted to DARLING. But… Continue Reading “Darling: A Preview”
Posted on June 5, 2012
by Brad C. Hodson
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* Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. -PT… Continue Reading “A Message from the Promotional Arm of Hodson Enterprises”
Category: March of the Autumn People, My Words In the Wild, Writing and Other Violent CrimesTags: AIDS, Blood Lite, Brian Keene, Christopher Golden, Dracula, Dune, F. Paul Wilson, Gary Braunbeck, Heather Graham, Hellboy, jack ketchum, Jim Butcher, Joe R. Lansdale, Kelly Armstrong, Kevin J. Anderson, Mike Mignola, Ramsey Campbell, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Slices of Flesh, travolta
Posted on October 15, 2011
by Brad C. Hodson
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My novel DARLING will be released by Bad Moon Books on October 26th. To celebrate, I’m posting a series exploring some of the mythology that inspired the book. This is an old post, but since it deals with one of the core concepts of the… Continue Reading “A Ghost Story for Halloween – The Mythology of DARLING Part 2”
Category: March of the Autumn People, My Words In the WildTags: Ancient Astronauts, Bad Science, crop circles, FatHead, Ghost Hunters, ghost story, ghosts, Good Science, halloween, hauntings, horror, mediums, Occam's Razor, otherworldly, paranormal, phenomenon, psychics, skeptical, skeptics, spirit orbs, supernatural, The Atlantic, The Thing, Tom Naughton, Webster
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