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The Wolf Gift

by Sarabeth Pollock: A Return… In 1994 I stumbled across a mass market copy of Interview with the Vampire in a country store during a family vacation.  Though I was fourteen, I immediately fell in love with the lush prose [...]

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Exclusive Preview from SCREAM Horror Magazine: Ninety Years of the Vampire Movie

by John Knott: From March 10th to March 17th, DarkMedia.com and SCREAM Horror Magazine are offering not only a free preview of one of their upcoming articles, “Ninety Years of the Vampire”, but a chance to WIN one of three [...]

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Women in Horror Month: Vamplit Salutes Anne Rice

Each Wednesday, genre fiction publisher Vamplit Publishing hosts an interactive, Twitter-based chat on a topic relevant to the horror/suspense/thriller genre.  Prior topics have included “Vicious Vampires”, “Witches”, “Horror Movie Makeup”, and the Master of Suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. This week, in honor [...]

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“My intention was to anchor the vampire world to the prosaic world of humanity. I thought that would make a great contrast, and it’s the source of a lot of fun to me.” -Charlaine Harris

New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris is no stranger to mystery, or the process of creating worlds.  With a career in writing that’s spanned over thirty years, she’s given us so many characters who — fantastic as they may [...]

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“…if there’s something I want to know about, I find a way. I’m not a fearful person and I hate missing opportunities. I love that line in the song about people saying I shouldn’t tempt fate, but I say that fate shouldn’t tempt me.” -Katherine Ramsland

DarkMedia Interviews Katherine Ramsland: When author Katherine Ramsland takes you on a journey into places where few dare to tread, whether it be the dark recesses of the mind of a serial killer, or a subculture with a universe all [...]

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“I hope that my reinterpretation of the vampire takes off and allows for others to do the same. I also hope that readers take away from my books the same ‘wow’ that I did when I read Anne Rice for the first time.” -Karen Dales

DarkMedia Interviews Karen Dales: It’s important to begin by stressing the fact that you don’t meet people like Karen Dales every day.  Confident, intelligent, and never intimidated by her own success, Karen is an author who means to leave an [...]

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“I need characters that feel real and I can relate to them. Then I need break-neck pace to the plot. I want to keep turning pages, not get bogged down in descriptions.” -Lisa Kessler

DarkMedia Interviews Lisa Kessler: “I have always loved to make up stories. My first published work was The Wonders of Unicorn Creek in 6th grade. The 9 page epic was published by my tiny elementary school. Since then I’ve published [...]

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“…I see dreams and delusions, writings and rituals as aspects of reality; they’re aspects of us.” -Hal Duncan

DarkMedia Interviews Hal Duncan: Author Hal Duncan was born in 1971, brought up in a small town in Ayrshire, and now lives in the West End of Glasgow. A member of the Glasgow SF Writers Circle, his first novel, VELLUM, [...]

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“…want to know a secret? Human evil is the worst evil there is.” -Carole Gill

DarkMedia Interviews Carole Gill: Author Carole Gill wrote her first story at age 8. It was science fiction. She switched to horror in her teens and has been writing ever since. Widely published in horror and sci-fi anthologies, The House [...]

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