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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 25, 20232 min read
New Releases: November 2023
Looking for your next dark read? This lists covers all corners of horror, from hardcore horror to books classified in other categories...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 23, 20234 min read
Tiffany Morris Interview
From the Elgin-nominated author of Elegies for Rotting Stars comes a debut novella about grief, regret, and family. In Green Fuse...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 20, 20233 min read
Weird History: Haunted New Jersey
Halloween Season is upon us and with that comes staying up late googling local haunts and urban legends in your area! No, just me?...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 18, 20235 min read
Horror Poetry Perfect for Halloween
We all know the classic poems that become popular around spooky season. Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". "The Witches' Spell" from William...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 16, 20237 min read
Nat Cassidy Interview
Ana and Reid have an exclusive opportunity to live in a well-established New York City apartment building called the Deptford. It...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 13, 20234 min read
Weird History: 13 Facts About Friday the 13th
Today is Friday the 13th, which is something of a mini holiday in the horror community. There are two Friday the 13ths in the 2023...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 11, 20236 min read
10 Books That Will Make You Stay Out of the Woods
Here at Frightful, we LOVE the forest. Absolutely. We prefer trees to most people. Can't get enough of them. That said, we never go...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 9, 20236 min read
E.M. Roy Interview
Leo Bates’s small Maine town starts to fall apart when the girl she loves goes missing. And Leo, well, she’s the prime suspect. Forced to...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 6, 20232 min read
Weird History: Being Afraid of Dolls
Recently, Frightful was contacted by US Ghost Adventures, the makers of the Lily Doll, about potentially featuring Lily in an upcoming...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 4, 20237 min read
13 Horrifying Apartment Buildings in Fiction
You are never alone in an apartment building. There are always people above. Below. Next door. And with horror, there is always the...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Oct 2, 20234 min read
Angela Sylvaine Interview
Alien worms. A doomsday cult. Prairie dogs with a memory-loss inducing bite. Angela Sylvaine’s new novel, Frost Bite, has it all! Set in...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 29, 20231 min read
Open Guest Essay Call
in lieu of a history lesson this week, we are opening Frightful open to essay submissions! We want to publish at least one more essay...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 27, 20233 min read
New Releases: October 2023
Looking for your next dark read? This lists covers all corners of horror, from hardcore horror to books classified in other categories...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 25, 202312 min read
Gordon B. White Interview
Gordon B. White has a new short story collection coming out this fall called Gordon B. White is creating Haunting Weird Horror(s). White...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 22, 20232 min read
Weird History: How a Dead Man Won the Race
This week's weird history lesson comes from a 1923 issue of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, when writer W.C. Vreeland covered a very unique...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 20, 20239 min read
Mental Health & Genre Fiction Reading List
Okay. Let's get personal. A few weeks ago, I ran a library writing workshop called "Mental Health and Genre Fiction" at the Bloomfield...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 18, 20235 min read
Karla Yvette Interview
Steeped in magic and pastoral images of an alternative American west, The Black Tree Atop the Hill is a mesmerizing debut novella from...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 15, 20232 min read
Weird History: Sacrilegious Forks
Forks are a practical utensil that helps us to eat all kinds of different foods. So, naturally, people used to think forks were the work...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 13, 20234 min read
7 Terrifying Tales Where the Pet Lives
Are you a horror fan who attaches emotionally to any animal character almost immediately? Then this list is for you. It's no secret that...
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Emily Ruth Verona
Sep 11, 20234 min read
Kelley Armstrong Interview
What if the only way to keep your home was to open it up to strangers? In Kelley Armstrong’s Hemlock Island, this is precisely what Laney...
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