Thanks to the Independent Publisher Book Awards for recognizing THE JEWISH BOOK OF HORROR with a Bronze medal in the Horror category for the 2022 IPPYs.

It’s #TERRORTUESDAY, so we’re promoting another DHC member’s work from our DARK LIT MARKET!

This week, tune in to INCARNATION READ, a horror fiction podcast by C.S.W.

INCARNATION READ is a podcast of horror tales, tales of inhuman impulses, of gaps between reality and nightmare, of things that are seen that can’t possibly be real––stories for a listener to hear, and to experience.

Presented by Denver Horror Collective, author and DHC co-founding member Josh Schlossberg surveys the dark landscape of biological horror fiction on his new podcast, with many DHC members as guests!

Subscribe to the podcast on Podbean, iTunes, Google, and other popular podcast platforms or sign up for Josh’s Worst Nightmare newsletter

-Interview by Desi D

1. What is your favorite line in a book/movie? And why?

LARRY BERRY: The worm that often destroys us is the temptation to agree with our critics by Thomas Harris, Hannibal. This serpent’s tooth of cynicism serves as a reminder to be an unrepentant rebel when you sit in your writing chair. It is more important to write from core memories than to follow anyone’s advice, no matter how well-meant. To be an original is uniquely American, and from Jack Kerouac to H. P. Lovecraft it is the original talents I admire and value.

2. As a writer, why horror? And what is your writing process when working on a new story? Pantser? Plotter? Or somewhere in between?

LB: Why horror? I was an outstanding school crossing guard. In my hometown of Salina, Kansas, Oakdale Elementary awarded me a pass to the Strand Theater each Saturday to watch the triple feature matinee they put on for the kids in town. My mother didn’t know that these were horror films (I don’t think any of the mothers did—these passes were a great 6-hour babysitter). The pass was good for three years, and I saw every horror film ever made. If it wasn’t love at first sight, it certainly was 148 films later.

A neighborhood won’t let its residents forget the past. One taste draws two lovers into a nightmarish addiction. A harsh winter forces strange creatures down from the mountains.

At sea level, where it’s safe, things like this can’t happen. But when you’re sky high in Denver, Colorado, anything goes…including your sanity.

Beware of Terror at 5280’, Denver Horror Collective’s (Denver Post bestselling, winner of the Fiction Anthology category & finalist for Horror Fiction in The 2020 Best Book Awards from American Book Fest) local horror fiction anthology featuring 22 dark tales set in and around Denver and the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains penned exclusively by local authors (including Stephen Graham Jones, Carter Wilson, and others).

Audiobook out now via Audible!