Join the New York Chapter of the Horror Writers Association for our new monthly reading series, Galactic Terrors! Presented via YouTube, each Galactic Terrors event will feature live readings by authors of horror, dark fantasy, science fiction, and more!
Galactic Terrors is broadcast on the second Thursday of every month at 8 p.m. Eastern. Watch all the previous episodes of Galactic Terrors on YouTube.
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The Best Horror of the Year Volume Thirteen, edited by Ellen Datlow, is out from Night Shade. It includes 25 stories and novelettes.
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Oliver Baer has three poems in Octopi from the Sky, an anthology from Dumpster Fire Press; he also wrote an essay about Cthulhu Sex Magazine for Adam McGovern’s Project Objectionable on HiLoBrow.com. Baer’s story “A Match is Lit” as well as his poem “Fire, fire in my mind…” are part of a collaboration with Deena Warner on her Halloween card project.
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Amy Grech discussed how the horror genre has evolved for female authors over the past 20 years, the pros of cons, and share how Jack Ketchum has influenced her writing on Visited by Voices. Grech also participated in a recent group chat at Dark Between Pages with Deep Arya and Mona Kabbani, in which they discussed what inspires them and their writing process. She also appeared on Story Hour, with co-reader Rachel Unger, where Grech read an excerpt from her story, “Cold Comfort” from The One That Got Away Anthology.
Read Grech’s gritty, NYC subway story, “Getting Off”, is on Misery Tourism. Further ahead, Grech’s body horror poem, “Soft Box,” appears in the forthcoming anthology, Under Her Skin, which releases on April 5, 2022. Add it on Goodreads and preorder on IndieBound or through other ebook retailers.
Tune in online on December 5th, 2021 at 8PM EST, when Grech will be reading with Yasmin Angoe, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Glen Erik Hamilton, Eliza Nellums, and Ron Charles at the Noir at the Bar virtual event.
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N.R. Lambert‘s short story, “Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhhh.” is included in Pulse Publishing’s recently released anthology, 99 Tiny Terrors, edited by Jennifer Brozek.
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Robert P. Ottone wrote an article, “Frights For a Good Cause” for the HWA’s Halloween Haunts series! Check it out here!
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This past Halloween season, Steven Van Patten received quite a bit of internet shine. After guest hosting October’s Galactic Terrors in full vampire regalia, and The Only Podcast About Movies, SVP participated in “The Heist” A live roll playing adventure based in the Vampire: The Masquerade mythos. Over 208 people watched the event, which was sponsored by Extra Credit and World of Darkness, and aired via Twitch on October 20th. You can watch this retooling of Christian Brookwater as a Toreador vampire clan Baron, leading a team of misfits as they search for a book that is the key to stopping a vampire war in Seattle on Twitch.
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