Posted on October 16, 2013
by Brad C. Hodson
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When the leaves change color and the wind cools, we find ourselves imagining what could be lurking in the shadows, what could be waiting in closets and under beds and inside dank, dark spaces. It’s a time that, whether through tradition or the influence… Continue Reading “Peculiar Genius: The Ghost Stories of M.R. James”
Category: March of the Autumn People, Writing and Other Violent CrimesTags: Clark Ashton Smith, Featured, ghost stories, ghost story, horror, HP Lovecraft, M.R. James, Montague Rhodes, Montague Rhodes James, short story, Stephen King
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 August 8, 2011
by Brad C. Hodson
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As a writer, I’m often drawn to horror. Not exclusively, perhaps not even most of the time, but often enough. I grew up on horror films and ghost stories. One of the first “grown-up” books I read was `Salem’s Lot. I was probably eight at… Continue Reading “2011 – The Year in Horror (so far) – Part 1: The Movies”
Category: March of the Autumn PeopleTags: Aiden Quinn, Amityville Horror, Anthony Hopkins, Black Death, Blood Creek, blood magic, Brad Anderson, Braveheart, Ciaran Hinds, Conor McPherson, County Cork, Croatan, Danny Glick, Darabont, Elias Koteas, George's Intervention, HBO, horror, horror films, horror movies, Insidious, Ireland, James Wan, Joel Shumacher, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Julius Caesar, Kevin Williamson, Let Me In, Let the Right One In, Matt Reeves, Michael Fassbender, Nazis, Nicholas Cage, occult, Poltergeist, Ralphie Glick, Richard Jenkins, Roanoke, Rome, Ron Perlman, Rutger Hauer, Scream, Scream 4, Sean Bean, Season of the Witch, Session 9, Stephen King, Steve O'Brien, The Devil, The Eclipse, The Exorcist, The Machinist, The Mist, The Rite, The Shining, Vanishing on 7th Street, vikings, WCBS, Wicker Man, zombies, `Salem's Lot
The 2011 Bram Stoker Awards were held recently by the Horror Writers Association. Several close friends of mine won awards and I just wanted to take a moment to congratulate them. Here is a list of winners from the HWA’s site (www.horror.org): HWA Announces… Continue Reading “The 2011 Bram Stoker Awards”
Category: March of the Autumn People, Writing and Other Violent CrimesTags: a dark matter, angel leigh mccoy, benjamin kane ethridge, black and orange, bram stoker, bram stoker awards, bruce boston, castle of los angeles, Charlaine Harris, Chuck Palahniuk, dark matters, dark regions press, ellen datlow, full dark no stars, gary a. braunbeck, George RR Martin, H.P. Lovecraft, haunted legends, horror, horror writers association, invisible fences, Joe R. Lansdale, John Skipp, lisa morton, michael colangelo, Neil Gaiman, nick mamatas, norman prentiss, peter straub, richard laymon, simon and schuster, Stephen King, the folding man, to each their darkness, werewolves
We all do stupid things from time to time, yet years ago I decided to revolve my life around one of them. You see, I have chosen the single most masochistic, cruel, and unforgiving career path imaginable. I suppose there are worse decisions. Scraping… Continue Reading “I am an idiot”
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