Posted on October 15, 2013
by Brad C. Hodson
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That magical time of year is here once again. The skies are a little grayer, the air a little chillier. Multicolored leaves dance their way down the street in the embrace of a cool wind. Candles flicker from inside the hollow eyes of a… Continue Reading “A Return to the October Country”
Category: March of the Autumn PeopleTags: amnesia, autumn, contaminated, doctor sleep, em garner, Featured, ghosts, halloween, halloween haunts, hauntings, horror, hwa, lisa morton, London Underground, machine for pigs, October, Old Hag syndrome, Ray Bradbury, Shining, Sleep Paralysis, Stephen King, summer's end, will patton
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 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 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