Review: The Gospel According to Horror, The Butcher of Nazareth, by David Scott Hay
The life of Jesus has been recounted for two thousand years: the scenes of his birth and infanthood, the story of his three-day visit to the Temple at the age […]
Horror Stories: Abbott and Costello Meet the Crazy Mixed-Up Featured Creatures from Planet X
Welcome to the sixth installment of Third Coast Review’s Featured Creatures, in which we ask Midwestern horror authors to recommend writers, artists, musicians, and stories that deserve more attention. Find […]
Interview: Becky Siegel Spratford’s New Anthology Asks Horror Authors Why They Love Their Genre
Horror authors are often asked where they get all their wonderful, horrible ideas, but rarely why they get them. Librarian Becky Siegel Spratford wondered about this herself. Since 2007, she’s […]
Review: Monsters Loom but Heart Prevails in Christina Henry’s Latest Release The Place Where They Buried Your Heart
Christina Henry’s latest release, The Place Where They Buried Your Heart, is for more than just horror fans. It’s a story of redemption. The book is a David and Goliath […]
Bites: What Horror Author Christina Henry Eats in a Day as Spooky Season Arrives
Christina Henry has published more than a dozen books and is about to celebrate the first hard cover release of her latest horror novel, The Place Where They Buried Your […]
Interview: Chapter and Multiverse: Christopher Hawkins’ I Contain Multitudes
When I last spoke with author Christopher Hawkins, he was writing about monsters and a deadly rain that threatened to tear a house and family apart. More recently, Hawkins wrote […]
Interview: Witches, Pirates, and LGBTQIA+—A Talk with Horror/Romance Writer Damian Serbu
Damian Serbu has often found inspiration in Chicagoland. Several characters in his Realm of the Vampire Council series, for instance, dwell in the Windy City itself. Self-described as an “author […]
Interview: “Body Horror at Every Turn”: Peter O’Keefe and Counted with the Dead
Born in Detroit, writer Peter O’Keefe now lives in one of Chicago’s neighbors to the north, Racine. Through the years he’s written for everything from “word processing temp jobs” to […]
I Was a Teenage Featured Creature: Midwestern Horror Writers Share Recent Fictional Horrors
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Dialogs: “The Only Moral Is Run!” – R. L. Stine at the Chicago Humanities Festival
This Guest Post was written by Holly Smith I entered the Music Box Theatre with anticipation. I was there to see the first episode of the Goosebumps TV show and […]
Interview: Scott Kenemore on Space Horror and More
Scott Kenemore is a horror writer from the Midwest who has lived in the Chicago area since 2004. Best known for his zombie trilogy Zombie Ohio, Zombie, Illinois, and Zombie, Indiana—“which […]
Interview: Richard Thomas: New-Weird, Hopepunk, Horror, and More
Richard Thomas is a Mundelein-based author of, as he describes it, “maximalist speculative fiction—mostly fantasy, science fiction, and horror.” With more than 175 published stories to his credit, he’s been […]