Nasty and Brutish Shorts: Reading & Writing Short Horror Fiction

                                                                                             I'm working away on my final pre-NECON blog post, but in the meantime, I have a plug for an upcoming virtual event of interest to horror fans: The Colorado chapter of Horror Writers of America will be discussing Steve Rasnic Tem's novel Deadfall Hotel at 7:30pm (Mountain Time) on July 26.  I plan to attend, and I encourage you to as well! Zoom info below.  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85995110961?pwd=iEbowBoOfGue8sYkEc4sO8uObWaYPu.1 I'm delighted to share this, because Steve is a living horror legend, and one of my top five American horror writers who's active today. I plan to dial in, and I encourage you all to ...

                                                                                                        We're back with another look at one of the Camp Necon 44 Writer Guests of Honor: Clay McLeod Chapman, whose Acquired Tastes came out last year and got a well-deserved Stoker Award nomination for fiction collection.   A note before we begin: The meaning of the title here is particularly apt: Something you'll notice in these stories (and that also comes up a little bit in Chapman's What Kind of Mother is a focus on the horror of eating and consumption. Usually, in horror fiction consumption is tied to annihilation and we're worried that the vampire will drink our blood, t...