The International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards returns to Baltimore the weekend of October 8 & 9, 2022! We will see the return of in-person stage, vendors and tours, all proceeds to benefit The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum in Baltimore. Virtual and in-person programs also available this year. This is a huge…
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You will never trust a smile again. 💀 #promotehorror
Once you see it, it’s too late. Watch the official trailer for #SmileMovie – Only in theatres September 30. You will never trust a smile again… About the movie 🍿 After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain. As an overwhelming…
Rare Edgar Allan Poe Letter Sells at auction for $155,000 📖
A rare Edgar Allan Poe letter extending his condolences to a fellow writer sold for $154,958, according to Boston-based RR Auction. The one-page letter is signed “Edgar A. Poe,” dated August 24, 1846. Addressed from New York, a handwritten letter to writer Frederick William Thomas, who, from 1841 until 1850, worked as a clerk in…
Fear 2000: Horror Undying – an online conference dedicated to contemporary horror
Fear 2000: Horror Undying – an online conference dedicated to contemporary horror, featuring talks, keynote lectures and special guests About this event Fear 2000 is a conference series dedicated to horror media in the twenty-first century, hosted by Sheffield Hallam University and supported by the Centre of Culture, Media and Society and the Department of…
The Bed of Shadows presented by HorrorBabble 💀
The Bed of Shadows by Fred R. Farrow Jr. The Bed of Shadows” is a short story by the little-known author, Fred R. Farrow, Jr. Having debuted in the May 1929 edition of Weird Tales, the story asks: What lurked above the man in the bed? Credits Narrated by Ian Gordon for HorrorBabble Music and…
Novelist Anne Rice’s archive now available at Tulane University
Novelist Anne Rice’s archive now available at Tulane University and available to researchers. 🧛🏻♂️📖 #books #wickedwednesday #horror
Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu – 19th Century Gothic Horror free Horror audiobook on YouTube
Full audiobook – Classic Gothic horror novella Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman’s susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla. Reading by Elizabeth Klett Carmilla is the ultimate gothic vampire tale—stylish, menacing, sensual, and spellbinding. It stands as one of…
The Art of Dread: Crafting Contemporary Horror – Online Workshop 💀📖
This event is presented by The Cabin in Boise, Idaho. In this workshop, we’ll explore themes and trends in contemporary horror and horror-adjacent genres and begin crafting our own horror stories. On odd-numbered weeks we’ll take a self-focused approach, looking inside to develop your own horror ideas (and your own horror stories!) In even-numbered weeks,…
Horror Author Anne Rice Passed Away
Anne Rice, author of ‘Interview with the Vampire’ and ‘Queen of the Damned,’ has passed away at the age of 80. “So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all…
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark – Biography Book! #PromoteHorror
Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark 🦇 I’ve always been a huge ELVIRA fan, so finding out that she has a new book being released next week was great news. Cassandra Peters actually has a fascinating history and story to tell, she’s really quite a survivor and an example of how…
Horror Movie of the Day: BlackHeart [A Short Film] #PromoteHorror
BlackHeart by Wiser Wolves Productions This short film was made for the 13 Stories Film Competition and is based on the true story of a real life inmate at the Old Idaho Penitentiary. Margaret Hardy, born in Osage Beach, Missouri in 1947, claimed she received no education as a child. In St. Louis, Missouri she…
Treasury of Folklore – Woodlands and Forests: Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves Book #Folklore
Come with us now on a journey into the forests; walk with us as we delve into the tales and traditions enfolded within the woodlands of the world. Pick up your lantern and step into the dark branches as we dig deep into the soil to unearth their mysteries. There are stories to be heard,…
Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley Was Born on This Day in 1797 in London | #PromoteHorror |#FrankensteinDay
You can view the actual digitized manuscript of Frankenstein from 1818. Browse a collection of the family’s digitized papers, including the original manuscript of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein at the National Endowment of the Humanities grant-funded Shelly-Godwin Archive. Mary Wollstonecraft and her husband William Godwin, together with their daughter Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley and her husband,…
Blood on Black Wax: Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl (Expanded Edition) Pre-Order Price Guarantee #PromoteHorror
Blood on Black Wax: Horror Soundtracks on Vinyl (Expanded Edition) by Aaron Lupton (Author), Jeff Szpirglas (Author), Christopher Young (Afterword), Mick Garris (Foreword) This title will be released on September 7, 2021. Hardcover Book 272 Pages $34.95 BRAND NEW & EXPANDED EDITION! Packed with dozens of additional horror titles and containing limited edition enhanced packaging…
Burying the Dead: An Archaeological History of Burial Grounds, Graveyards and Cemeteries
Burying the Dead: An Archaeological History of Burial Grounds, Graveyards and Cemeteries Pen and Sword History Publishing, 2020 216 pages Follow the author as they excavate human remains buried inside an ancient Kirk and reassess the influence of Ancient Egypt upon funerary architecture. Deep in the heart of North Yorkshire, at a place called Walkington…
Archives of a Horror Fiend 