dawn.vogel | October 27, 2022
If you’re looking for some spooky reads of short stories, here are a few of my recently released dark and horror stories! “Memento Mori” appears in Queer Weird West Tales. This story involves Calamity Jane and the detritus of Wild Bill Hickok’s life, along with some surreal and spooky events related to the two. “Dangers […]
dawn.vogel | October 25, 2022
If you’re looking for some spooky Halloween reads, I’ve got a few options available! Volatile Figments is a collection of six dark contemporary fantasy short stories in which the protagonists deal with the supernatural. They generally tend toward dark contemporary fantasy rather than horror, so they’re spooky without being terrifying. Doorways in the Gloom is […]
dawn.vogel | October 21, 2022
All of my Fun for Fridays are themed toward this being October and the prime spooky season! Today, I’ve got a list of horror writing prompts! There are a variety of different types of seeds here, so you may need to poke through a few before you find one that will resonate with you, but […]
dawn.vogel | October 17, 2022
On the heels of the horror writing course I took, I’ve been writing a lot more horror. So it’s only natural to turn to some advice about writing horror, like this article by Tim Waggoner. It has a ton of great points on dos and don’ts that are invaluable to someone just getting started in […]
dawn.vogel | October 7, 2022
It’s the spooky season, so this week’s Fun for Friday prompts are from the horror genre! The graphic in this post shows a breakdown of many horror genres and subgenres, along with the films that fall into those subgenres. (If the graphic is blurry, you can click on it to enlarge, or go here to […]
dawn.vogel | October 6, 2022
For the first time in a long while, I don’t have any new stories or poems out in the past month! But not to fear, there will be more new pieces coming soon. So in the meantime, I did have a new book out this month: Camp Haunt. Which is actually a re-release of sorts, since […]
dawn.vogel | September 27, 2022
My young adult epistolary horror novella, Camp Haunt, is out today, in print and ebook for the first time! Camp Haunt started out as a serial epistolary novel on Channillo, which I wrote in 2016 and just into the beginning of 2017. At one point, I thought I might completely rewrite it as a novella […]
dawn.vogel | August 25, 2022
Six years ago, I wrote an epistolary novel about a haunted summer camp. Up until this point, the only place it has been available is on Channillo. But I always wanted this to be a book that folks could buy and own, so now it is! Camp Haunt is coming back! The book has undergone minor […]
dawn.vogel | June 29, 2022
Catherine Lundoff’s collection, Unfinished Business (Queen of Swords Press, 2019) is a beautifully dark bunch of short stories. Within the pages, you’ll find historical horror, literary horror, dark sci-fi, and more. My favorite stories of the bunch were ones in conversation with works of literature. “The Mask and the Amontillado” lets you know the twist […]
dawn.vogel | May 19, 2022
Have you had a chance to check out Doorways in the Gloom? It’s got a bunch of spooky stories and poetry just waiting to scare and unsettle you! Doorways can lead to many marvelous places. In this collection, however, the scenes they reveal are shrouded in gloom and darkness. See where the doorways take you in […]
