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  • Dark grey banner image with text reading Excerpt The Great Outer Dark by David Neil Lee. Open book logo bottom left. Open book Spooky week logo top left.
    Dark grey banner image with text reading Excerpt The Great Outer Dark by David Neil Lee. Open book logo bottom left. Open book Spooky week logo top left.
    October 31, 2023

    Get in the Halloween Spirit with an Excerpt from David Neil Lee's Lovecraftian Homage, The Great Outer Dark

    After a long voyage through the galaxy, one will certainly be missing the comforts of home. But when Nate Silva, after the adventures of David Neil Lee's The Midnight Games and The Medusa Deep, returns ...

  • banner image with photo of author Naben Ruthnum, pictured with his light-coloured cat, and text reading Interview with Naben Ruthnum. Open Book Spooky week logo in top left corner, Open Book logo centred below text
    banner image with photo of author Naben Ruthnum, pictured with his light-coloured cat, and text reading Interview with Naben Ruthnum. Open Book Spooky week logo in top left corner, Open Book logo centred below text
    October 25, 2023

    Naben Ruthnum on His Delightfully Creepy YA Horror Debut, a Spooky Love Letter to the 90s

    Behind the facade of small towns lurk many things – something high schooler Vish knows all too well in acclaimed author Naben Ruthnum's first foray into young adult fiction, The Grimmer (ECW Press).Vish's ...

  • banner image with text reading excerpt from Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot by Chris Kuriata
    banner image with text reading excerpt from Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot by Chris Kuriata
    October 25, 2023

    Excerpt: Get Spooky with Chris Kuriata's Dark Wishing-Grant Tale, Sacrifice of the Sisters Lot

    Every kid who ever made a wish while blowing out their birthday candles would assume that having your every wish granted would be, well, spectacular. But in Chris Kuriata's deliciously creepy new novel, Sacrifice ...

  • The Writing Moment with... Spooky Season
    The Writing Moment with... Spooky Season
    October 20, 2021

    The Writing Moment with... Spooky Season

    I love and dread the fall. The appeals are many: the crackling, fiery colours, the beginning of a new school year, Halloween’s ghoulish joys, the growing chill in the air, and the attendant comfort ...

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