(Re)Join the DHC Cult!

It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year: Denver Horror Collective membership renewal!

During 2020 and 2021—the first two years of the pandemic—we gave all existing DHC members a free renewal, but this year we’re asking folks to pay the piper. Or, more specifically, $20 via PayPal (submissions at denverhorror dot com) or Venmo (Denver Horror Collective – @denverhorror) so we can keep this here DHC pirate ship afloat!

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Dark Lit Market: INCARNATION READ hosted by C.S.W.

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.

The 4th Circle: Interview with Lawrence Berry

-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.

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