Denver Horror Collective Book Society -PET SEMATARY – by Stephen King

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StephenKingPetSematarySaturday June 8 @ 6-8pm, Golden, Colorado (RSVP for directions)

The Denver Horror Collective Book Society–a book club for horror writers at any level–will be celebrating over thirty-five years of PET SEMATARY by Stephen King. Let your horror fiction flag fly, and be prepared to share your fave PS stories (when you first read/saw it, any PS folklore you’re fascinated by, and of course, what you love about it).

Have your writer’s cap on along with your party hat and spade. Directions will be PM’d to ya. Please RSVP to facilitate planning for this soiree, and thanks in advance.

 

6(66) Questions with Jeamus Wilkes

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– Interview by Linnea Linton

jeamusJeamus Wilkes is a Denver Horror Collective member, host of Jeamus After Midnight Podcast, and editor of The Epitaph.

1. Name one horror author you admire and explain how they help you become a better writer?

Peter Straub. Straub helps me become a better writer because of his beautiful use of language blended with professional execution of creating dread and scenes of absolute terror. His work is un-commercial in the best possible way, yet utterly accessible in readability and makes my imagination’s flesh crawl like no other writer. It helps me become a better writer in knowing that I can aim for the story first, and cut the commercial crap right out. His novel Shadowland is probably my favorite book I’ve ever read, and I read it at least once a year.

2. What author did you dislike at first but grew into?

H.P. Lovecraft. I think I associated his name too much with gaming and protracted paragraphs (that sounds like a swipe at gaming culture when it really isn’t; at one time I just felt like Lovecraft’s world was over-appropriated in it), but when I revisited his work a few years ago I came to appreciate it on my own terms and made my own discoveries in his work. He’s a controversial figure, but—at this point, at least—I’ve decided to appreciate the artist. Chew on the meat and spit out the bones, to use a blunt horror metaphor.

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The Hatchet Lady of Red Rocks

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– by Adrianne Montoya

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Photo: Adrianne Montoya

The road that runs the east slope of Lookout Mountain has a great view of the city lights, but as a Lovers’ Lane, it gets a little crowded. If you and your date require a more secluded spot, there are plenty of half-hidden pullouts along the backroads of Morrison where you can slip under the wild plum and gambel oak. Ignore the litter of empty beer cans, discarded prophylactics, and coyote scat, and it’s peaceful and private. If you manage to get close to Red Rocks on summer concert night, you can even enjoy the background thrum of the music.

Until the Hatchet Lady wanders past. She’s known to be less than friendly to people she considers trespassers. That hatchet may be getting dull, but she swings it with surprising force.

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Denver Horror Epitaph

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We’re all shivers as we announce the unveiling of the Denver Horror Epitaph, the official newsletter of the Denver Horror Collective!

Our unnerving monthly e-newsletter will

  • loop you in on the Mile High City’s burgeoning literary horror scene
  • chill you with original dark writings and cartoons
  • disturb you with interviews of local horror creators
  • and update you on the latest goings-on at the Denver Horror Collective!

SUBSCRIBE to monthly email issues of the Epitaph and enter in a drawing to receive a signed copy of Terror at 5280′, our upcoming horror fiction anthology!

 

Frights and Flights with Lanie Goodell on April 28

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Denver Horror Collective is now a co-sponsor of this recurring event at Bookbar with our very own Tom Mavroudis as host!

This month on Sunday, April 28 @ 6 pm we feature Lanie Goodell, single mom and horror author from Denver reading from Salvagium, a romantic horror novel set in the picturesque mountains of Vermont.

RSVP here!

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Jeamus After Midnight Podcast #2: Josh Schlossberg Interview and Folk Horror Discussion

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Jeamus_After_Midnight_PodbeanIn this second episode of the Jeamus After Midnight Podcast, Jeamus interviews author and journalist Josh Schlossberg, a damned fine writer who mixes it up with the macabre. Later in the episode we have a brief discussion about the very big subject of American Folk Horror.

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Jeamus After Midnight Podcast #1: Brains and Origins

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Jeamus_After_Midnight_PodbeanIn this pilot episode of Jeamus After Midnight (sponsored by Denver Horror Collective), artist and author Jeamus Wilkes flies solo in a fifteen minute monologue about creative brains, the origins of stuff, sobriquets, what meaneth “horror”, and the road ahead for the podcast… all with a delightfully creepy, blizzardy soundtrack.

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