Here are just a few of the panels you can see us on. For a full schedule, go to BayCon.org!
Sunday 3 July, 2022
HorrorAddicts.net – Geek Out Horror Style!
1:00 PM / Synergy 1
Emerian Rich, Loren Rhoads, R.L. Merrill, Laurel Anne Hill, Mark Orr, MD Neu
Come geek out with us horror-style! We will also be talking about our new book Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2, a mostly non-fiction horror anthology. Prizes and spooky fun to be had by all!
Editors and slush readers discuss what gets a story rejected and what they look for in a story to be considered for publications. Does and don’ts of cover and query letters can also be covered.
1:00 PM / Engage
Creating Your Own Anthology
Emerian Rich, Loren Rhoads, J.Scott Coatsworth.
How do you get submissions, where do you advertise, how do you handle the subs when they come in, how do you vet the subs, should you do blind submissions, how do you pay and contract the authors, and how to do a charity anthology? Whether you want to start a small ‘zine, publish a print book, or go eBook format, this panel will discuss all the ins and outs.
Sunday 3 July, 2022
HorrorAddicts.net – Geek Out Horror Style!
1:00 PM / Synergy 1
Emerian Rich, Loren Rhoads, R.L. Merrill, Laurel Anne Hill, Mark Orr, MD Neu
Come geek out with us horror-style! We will also be talking about our new book Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2, a mostly non-fiction horror anthology. Prizes and spooky fun to be had by all!
Here are just a few of the panels you can see us on. For a full schedule, go to BayCon.org!
Friday 1 July, 2022
Time Zone: PST 4:00 PM / Synergy 5
Everything you wanted to know about modern romantic fiction but were afraid to ask
Emerian Rich, R.L. Merrill, Kim Fielding, Sue Brown-Moore.
Romantic fiction is so much more than the genre of “romance”. Like science fiction, romance is a vehicle for progressive thinking, for empowerment and pushing boundaries, particularly in the realms of SciFi and Paranormal Romance. The vast array of sub-genres, tropes, themes, and archetypes in a romance writer’s toolkit can be both daunting and exciting.
Editors and slush readers discuss what gets a story rejected and what they look for in a story to be considered for publications. Does and don’ts of cover and query letters can also be covered.
1:00 PM / Engage
Creating Your Own Anthology
Emerian Rich, Loren Rhoads, J.Scott Coatsworth.
How do you get submissions, where do you advertise, how do you handle the subs when they come in, how do you vet the subs, should you do blind submissions, how do you pay and contract the authors, and how to do a charity anthology? Whether you want to start a small ‘zine, publish a print book, or go eBook format, this panel will discuss all the ins and outs.
Sunday 3 July, 2022
HorrorAddicts.net – Geek Out Horror Style!
1:00 PM / Synergy 1
Emerian Rich, Loren Rhoads, R.L. Merrill, Laurel Anne Hill, Mark Orr, MD Neu
Come geek out with us horror-style! We will also be talking about our new book Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2, a mostly non-fiction horror anthology. Prizes and spooky fun to be had by all!
Here are just a few of the panels you can see us on. For a full schedule, go to BayCon.org!
Friday 1 July, 2022
Time Zone: PST 4:00 PM / Synergy 5
Everything you wanted to know about modern romantic fiction but were afraid to ask
Emerian Rich, R.L. Merrill, Kim Fielding, Sue Brown-Moore.
Romantic fiction is so much more than the genre of “romance”. Like science fiction, romance is a vehicle for progressive thinking, for empowerment and pushing boundaries, particularly in the realms of SciFi and Paranormal Romance. The vast array of sub-genres, tropes, themes, and archetypes in a romance writer’s toolkit can be both daunting and exciting.
Editors and slush readers discuss what gets a story rejected and what they look for in a story to be considered for publications. Does and don’ts of cover and query letters can also be covered.
1:00 PM / Engage
Creating Your Own Anthology
Emerian Rich, Loren Rhoads, J.Scott Coatsworth.
How do you get submissions, where do you advertise, how do you handle the subs when they come in, how do you vet the subs, should you do blind submissions, how do you pay and contract the authors, and how to do a charity anthology? Whether you want to start a small ‘zine, publish a print book, or go eBook format, this panel will discuss all the ins and outs.
Sunday 3 July, 2022
HorrorAddicts.net – Geek Out Horror Style!
1:00 PM / Synergy 1
Emerian Rich, Loren Rhoads, R.L. Merrill, Laurel Anne Hill, Mark Orr, MD Neu
Come geek out with us horror-style! We will also be talking about our new book Horror Addicts Guide to Life 2, a mostly non-fiction horror anthology. Prizes and spooky fun to be had by all!
HorrorAddicts.net will be attending BayCon, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writer’s Convention in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Saturday May 26th
10:00am-4:00pm
Imagination Fair
Free to the public
Join us at the Imagination Fair. Take selfies with Inkjet, the incredible cepholopod, chat with authors, get freebies, enjoy face painting, and answer trivia questions to get awesome swag from CometTV, like Tank Girl T-shirts, The Craft protection sachets, and alien gifts.
Authors present will be: Laurel Anne Hill, Sumiko Saulson, J. Malcolm Stewart, Loren Rhoads, Emerian Rich, Mercy Hollow, E.M. Markoff, Trinity Adler, and more!
This is a free event with swag to spare!
Sunday May 27th
HorrorAddicts.net Panel
HorrorAddicts.net: Come discuss musical influence on horror and dark fantasy literature, movies, and lifestyle. Hear authors read their horror stories and enter to win door prizes. Musically inspired horror favors free until they run out!
Authors present will be: Laurel Anne Hill, Sumiko Saulson, Jonathan Fortin, J. Malcolm Stewart, Loren Rhoads, Emerian Rich
HorrorAddicts.net will be attending BayCon, the Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Writer’s Convention in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Saturday May 26th
10:00am-4:00pm
Imagination Fair
Free to the public
Join us at the Imagination Fair. Take selfies with Inkjet, the incredible cepholopod, chat with authors, get freebies, enjoy face painting, and answer trivia questions to get awesome swag from CometTV, like Tank Girl T-shirts, The Craft protection sachets, and alien gifts.
Authors present will be: Laurel Anne Hill, Sumiko Saulson, J. Malcolm Stewart, Loren Rhoads, Emerian Rich, Mercy Hollow, E.M. Markoff, Trinity Adler, and more!
This is a free event with swag to spare!
Sunday May 27th
HorrorAddicts.net Panel
HorrorAddicts.net: Come discuss musical influence on horror and dark fantasy literature, movies, and lifestyle. Hear authors read their horror stories and enter to win door prizes. Musically inspired horror favors free until they run out!
Authors present will be: Laurel Anne Hill, Sumiko Saulson, Jonathan Fortin, J. Malcolm Stewart, Loren Rhoads, Emerian Rich
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Top 100 of Horror
Top 10 Horror Movies – As voted on by HorrorAddicts.net listeners
1. The Exorcist
2. Suspiria
3. The Shining
4. Phantasm
5. Hellraiser
6. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
7. Prince of Darkness
8. Inside
9. Night of the Living Dead (org)
10. Dracula, (Bela’s)
Top 10 Horror TV Series – presented by Kbatz
1. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
2. Dark Shadows
3. The Twilight Zone
4. Tales from the Darkside
5. The X-Files
6. Friday the 13th the Series
7. Tales from the Crypt
8. Night Gallery
9. Forever Knight
10. Elvira’s Movie Macabre (I’m cheating I don’t care!)
Humorous Honorable Mentions:
The Addams Family
The Munsters
Top 10 Horror Manga- presented by Emz
1. Death Note
2. Black Butler
3. Godchild
4. Rozen Maiden
5. Tarot Cafe’
6. Black Bird
7. Vampire Knight
8. Rosario + Vampire
9. Haunted House
10. Murder Princess
Top 10 Horror Books reviewed by HorrorAddicts.net – presented by David
10. Childhood Nightmares Under The Bed from Sirens Call publications. It’s rare that I read an anthology where I liked every story in it but I did for this one.
9.The Nightmare Project by Jo-Anne Russell. This one takes place mostly in an insane asylum which to me makes it terrifying and the main character is excellent the way she goes back and forth from crazy to being a sweet mother who wants to see her kids again.
8. NightWhere by John Everson. This is one bizarre romance that will leave you feeling sick to your stomach.
7. My Fearful Symmetry by Denise Verrico This is a different take on vampires that I really enjoyed.
6. The Weeping Woman by Patricia Santos Marcantonio Good Mexican ghost legend combined with a modern day police thriller.
5. The Last Adventure of Dr. Yngve Hogalum by D L Mackenzie. First steampunk tale I’ve read with a lot of humor. Fun read.
4. Vaudeville by Greg Chapman. I like the concept of traveling side shows so I loved this one.
3.Underwood and Flinch Chronicles volume 1 and 2 by Mike Bennett. Excellent vampire story that I couldn’t put down. Its books like this that make me love reading.
2. Ivory by Steve Merrifield. I loved this one I wasn’t sure where it was going until the end, Really good original idea for a book.
1. Charla by Alex Beresford Its been seven months since I’ve read this book, even if you take the Demon out of the story it still works as a great horror novel.
Top 10 HorrorAddicts.net Interviews – presented by Sapphire (see full blog post)
10. Kimberly Steele
9. Shaunessy Ashdown
8. Patricia Santos
7. Crystal Connor
6. Rick Kitagawa
5. Jennifer Rahn
4. Joshua Heinrich
3. Shana Abé
2. Wicked Women Writers/Masters of Macabre
1. Emerian Rich
Top 10 Horror Stories on HorrorAddicts.net – presented by David
This list proves that Emerian doesn’t like me. It’s almost impossible to go through all of the episodes of horror addicts and pick out a top 10. I’m sure I left out plenty that I liked but this is what I came up with:
10.Season 1 episode 3. The Show by Kirk Warrington. I like werewolves and I liked the concept behind this story.
9.Season 2 episode 13. Santa Claws by Michele Rogers Good Christmas tale, lots of fun
8. Season 4 episode 33. Wings of Revenge by Laurel Anne Hill. Well told story and I like the bats in it.
7. Season 3 episode 28 The Butterfly Collector by Kimberly Steele. I liked this one and that’s all I’m saying. This one got me in trouble because I was listening to it at work. Listen to it you’ll see what I mean.
6. Season 2 episode 15 Night Crossing by Mike Bennett. I liked the book this is from so much I just can’t keep it off the list.
5. Season 5 episode episode 54 Hammersmith House I like the premise, I like the use of a historic event and I like stories told in diary entries.
4.Season 7 episode 72 Mark Vale Inkubus. Great voice and great production values
3.Season 7 episode 83 Shaunessy Ashdown Commencing Slaughter. Great audio production, good story that may keep you from ever eating meat again.
2.Ronda Carpenter WWW entry season 5 Lust: Barring Lilith. Great story with lots of sex and violence what more can you ask for.
1. Season 1 Episode 6 Hunt Night by Mark Eller. Before I was on staff this was the episode that made me think of the horror addicts podcast as my favorite. Good story about demons.
Top 10 Fashion Must-Haves for Horror Addicts – presented by Mimielle
1. A GOOD Black Eyeliner for everyone! Yes Guyliner is bigger than ever! (Gel crayons double as lip liner, I’m a fan…)
2. SUNSCREEN. Even if you don’t maintain a gothic pallor, protecting your skin keeps it more beautiful.
3. A pair of staples are A) A good hair product to tame or fluff your hair and define your style and B) A BB or CC cream, with skin benefits and good coverage. For guys who don’t use makeup, a colorless but mattifying foundation primer is undetectable on the skin but has skin benefits and works some pore-vanishing magic!
4. A staple black bottom piece. Black skirt, jeans, leggings, bondage pants, cargo pants/shorts. It’s the most versatile thing in your wardrobe and the easiest to change as a seasonal trend piece!
5. Favorite fandom t-shirt(s). Whether it’s a band shirt, vintage horror movie tie-in or blackletter gym, club or coffee shop shirt, REPRESENT your alternative interests by displaying them once in a while. Extra points if it’s somehow distressed, laced or bleach-‘dyed’. Get creative!
6. A black or white button-down shirt. You can wear it so many ways! Over T’s and tanks, under vests and sweaters, tucked or untucked. I use a men’s pleated tuxedo shirt that I stole from my swain.
7. One or two unusual pieces or trademark ‘you’ looks. For example a couple of mine are ‘all white and pale with intense lips and eyes’ and ‘all black but frilly and with heavy makeup’ and I build most of my wardrobe around these kinds of looks.
8. A go-to ‘uniform’. A set of clothes and a practiced makeup look that you can throw together in very minimal time and always look fab. Mine is a black TrippNYC dress, blow drying my hair straight and a winged black liner/red lip look. Out the door in 20 (shh, don’t tell!)!
9. A great pair of boots or shoes. Docs, Demonia Buckle Boots, your trusty Converse Chucks. Keep them polished/neat even if your look is more deconstructed/grunge.
10. A fierce attitude! Confidence is ultimately the key to pulling off any look!
Top 10 Horror Music – presented by HorrorAddicts.net Staff
1. Type O Negative
2. Midnight Syndicate
3. Saints of Ruin
4. Nosferatu
5. Nine Inch Nails
6. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
7. The Damned
8. Tool
9. Mission UK
10. Xorcist
Top 10 Horror Soundtracks – presented by HorrorAddicts.net Staff
1. Suspiria
2. Lost Boys
3. Dracula
4. Interview with the Vampire
5. Sweeny Todd
6. Beetlejuice
7. Nightmare Before Christmas
8. The Crow
9. Scream
10. Queen of the Damned
Top 10 Episode Memories – presented by Emz (find out why by listening to the show!)
1. Season 1 Ep 8- Arlene’s Forever, we were trying to record in the Hell Hole Tavern cemetery in Second Life and Arlene kept getting her hair caught on the cemetery fence and walking around bald.
2. Season 2 Ep 15- Mike Bennett’s introduction on our show of Night Crossing, which was the intro to Underwood and Flinch.
3. Season 3 Ep 31- The first ever Wicked Women Writer’s Challenge
4. Season 4 Ep 37 – Rhonda’s Sea Serpent rising out of the water to kill us all!
5. Season 5 Ep 51 & 52 – Jez and Fang fight in GothHaus. Eyeliner Vs. Top Hat.
6. Season 6 Ep71 – Really a treat for me to interview Patterson Lundquist, the #1 Elvira Impersonator. Not only was it an honor, but we had a lot of fun chatting.
7. Season 7 Ep 84 – Interviewing one of my favorite authors, Andrew Neiderman. I wouldn’t say it was the fun-est because I was nervous as hell, but to be able to talk to an author that has changed your life is an experience I won’t forget.
8. Season 8 No Episode… I got to interview Mike Bennett live via Skype at BayCon and it was so awesome. The audio messed up and I was unable to share it with you, but those of us that were there was so thrilled. Def. something we’ll never forget. If you think Mike Bennett is cool on his podcasts, he is even more awesome live!
9. Season 1 -Horror Con in Second Life. Was so much fun. We had free reign because Mark Eller was the host and he let me do whatever I wanted. We had poetry readings in the cemetery, he killed me in the tavern and then we had a fashion show by hanging for Mimielle’s fashion label in SL where I walked the cat walk, got hung, and then dropped down to make my final lap. Was so much fun!
10. I will never forget my very first show. I was fresh off my first ever podcast called Office Angst, I wanted to do something to do with Horror and I had no idea if this show would fly or even if it would go past that first episode. Sad is I think I’ve lost it… It was deleted from the site and I can not find it in my archive… so it might be lost forever!
Emerian Rich and other HorrorAddicts.net authors will be at this year’s BayCon. BayCon is the largest science fiction, fantasy, and horror convention in the San Francisco Bay Area. The convention takes place over Memorial Day weekend, starting on Friday afternoon May 24th, and ending Monday, May 27th.
Emerian and her HorrorAddicts.net crew provided the decorations this year to get the BayCon group into the spooky, horror, mood of Chairwoman Sabre’s theme: Triskaidekaphobicon, or the fear of 13 con.
Come join Emerian and the gang at the Santa Clara Regency Hyatt for a weekend of magic, mystery, and spookiness!
Meet:
HorrorAddicts.net Hostess, Emerian Rich
Most Wicked 2009, H. E. Roulo
Most Wicked 2011, Laurel Anne Hill
Best in Blood Season 1, Jeff Carlson
GothHaus 3 voice actor, Dario Ciriello
Horror Author, Jason Malcom Stewart
Horror Author, Jay Hartlove
HorrorAddicts.net friends Sandra Sadiak, Ann Wilkes, Beth Barany, Dani & Eytan Kollin, and many more.
Confirmed events are:
Trick or Treat Carnival for all ages
Live interview with HorrorAddicts.net Season 2 Best in Blood, UK author and podcaster, Mike Bennett, via Skype
HorrorAddicts.net Tea Party
A LIVE podcast recording of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
A movie screening of The Nightmare Before Christmas
Klingon Slave Auction
Dancing – Regency and Belly Dancing
HorrorAddicts.net Family Friendly Cereal and Horror Cartoon event
And much, much more…
Meet Emerian, get stamps in your Horror Passport, and send a TerrorGram! Don’t forget to pass by the HorrorAddicts.net fan table for goodies, freebies, and spooky stuff!
This is going to be the best BayCon ever!
Check programming at BayCon.org for the full schedule of events.
May 28th / Cabaret Perilous! / Oakland Ca /Enjoy a night of Acrobats, snake-charmers, singers, dancers and much much more. Some of the evening’s performers include: Contortionist Nobutaka, The Can Cannibals, Magician Hernan Cortez and others. The show will take place at the Uptown Club at 9pm. For more information go to hubbahubbarevue.com
May 27-29/Spooky Empire’s Mayhem/Orlando Fl / This convention takes place at the Wyndham Orlando resort and will include cast members from the Evil Dead including Ted Rami and Bruce Campbell. Also included are the cast of The Walking Dead along with a dealer’s room, movie viewings and Q and A’s. For more information go to www.spookyempire.com.
May 27-30 / Baycon 2011 / Santa Clara Ca / This year’s event will include a masquerade ball with the theme being Carnivale around the world. There will also be a gaming room, art show, a dealer’s room and a writer’s workshop. For more information go to baycon.org.
May 13th / Friday the 13th 3 in 3D / Brisbane Queensland Australia /This event has nothing to do with the movie but if you go you can expect music from The Midnight Creepers, Teenage Wolves, Graveyard Rumble, The Chokes and many more. Also come in costume and win some great prizes. For more information go to http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204128859609318.
Friday June 3-5 / Saturday Horror and Sci-Fi Expo / East Rutherford New Jersey / This is a horror convention taking place at the Sheraton Meadowlands hotel and includes a zombie walk lead by Ken Foree from Dawn of the Dead, screenings of House of 1000 Corpses with a Q and A including Sid Haig, a dealer’s room and a masquerade ball. For more information go to Saturdaynightmares.com.
May 20th / World Goth Day / Beirut Lebanon / Celebrate World Goth Day and listen to some of the best goth, industrial, darkwave, electronica and metal music played by the DJ at the Art lounge from 8pm to 3am. Come in costume and celebrate the European goth concept. For more information go to artlounge.net.
June 3rd / Club Sin: Dominatrix / Montreal Quebec / This is a fetish show with the theme being Dominatrices and Maitresses. The evening will include music from DJ Miss Lydie and DJ Kommandant Jack and a costume contest. For more information go to clubsin.ca.
This weekend was the annual gathering of awesome writers, readers, costumers, and enthusiasts of SciFi, Fantasy, and (some) horror people! They like to call it Baycon, I just call it – freakin’ rad.
Not only did we get to enjoy time with friends, browse a spectacular art gallery, spend money in the dealer’s room, watch belly dancing, participate in the Regency dance, view anime, listen to speakers, tour the party floor, admire costumes, act like zombies, go to the Klingon slave auction, and generally wear ourselves out on the most awesome entertainment in the San Francisco Bay Area, we also got to catch some Horror Addicts writers on film!
Dani and Eytan Kollin were back to promote their second book in the Unincorporated series, The Unincorporated War. Their playful brotherly banter is always a treat. You always wonder… who will win the argument? And you’re always left wondering… who did win the argument? Eytan also puts on what we have come to know as the best panel of the con- an unparalleled weapons demonstration.
Laurel Anne Hill
Author Laurel Anne Hill was also in attendance, reading from two books. Her novel Heroes Arise and the newly released anthology Rum and Runestones from Dragon Moon Press. I really had a good time at her reading. She had wine and cheese and grapes. She also color coordinated her outfit with the new book cover very well. A woman must also match her accessories, you know!
Kirk Warrington
H. E. Roulo and Emz
Authors Heather Roulo and Kirk Warrington were also present.
Tony Todaro, Scott Sigler, Ann Wilkes, A Kovacs, Emerian Rich
My panels were very enjoyable. I got to talk about manga vs. comics, self-promotion, and how to use the internet (including SL) to it’s full potential.
I got to meet long time Horror Addict, A Kovacs, who was the voice behind the story in episode #19. I also met a few more of you guys at the con and I infected some new members as well. Next year I hope to meet more of you. If there is a con in your neck of the woods you’d like to see me at, tell your con organizers or email me with the info. I’d love to come!
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