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Music To My Fears on Oct. 5

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MUSIC TO MY FEARS: Horror Fiction Readings set to Live Music!

A benefit for Terror at 5280′, a local horror fiction anthology

$15 General Admission ($20 for attendance + drink)

Get tix HERE!

Readings by: JoAnn Chaney (New York Times and USA Today bestselling author), Gary Robbe, Hollie Snider, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Grace Horton, Sean Murphy, Amy Armstrong, Bobby Crew, and Josh Schlossberg.

Music by: Brendan Devlin, Nate Trautenberg, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Jonatha Forisha, Andy Frank, DJ Krups, and Josh Schlossberg.

Hosted by: Jeamus Wilkes

Presented by: Denver Horror Collective

Sponsored by: Lighthouse Writers Workshop, Crestone Law Group, Indyink, YaYa’s Euro Bistro, Roaming Buffalo BBQ, and BookBar

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Frights and Flights with Carter Wilson on July 28

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Denver Horror Collective is a sponsor of this recurring event at Bookbar hosted by our very own Tom Mavroudis, pairing horror and thriller readings with flights of beer & wine.

On Sunday, July 28 @ 6 pm we feature Carter Wilson reading from his new book The Dead Girl in 2A. RSVP here!

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Jake Buchannan knows the woman sitting next to him on his business flight to Denver—he just can’t figure out how he knows her. Clara Stowe isn’t in Jake’s line of work and didn’t go to college with him. They have nearly nothing in common apart from a deep and shared certainty that they’ve met before. Despite their best efforts over a probing conversation, both struggle to figure out what circumstances could possibly have brought them together. Then, in a revelation that sends Jake reeling, Clara admits she’s traveling to the Colorado mountains to kill herself, and disappears into the crowded airport immediately after landing.

The Dead Girl in 2A is the story of what happens to Jake and Clara after they get off that plane, and the manipulative figure who has brought them together decades after they first met.

Carter Wilson is the award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of Mister Tender’s Girl. He lives outside of Boulder, Colorado, with his two children.

 

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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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!