- Maureen posts about making a pumpkin pie from scratch. We call dibs on one of her post-economic collapse boarding rooms!
- Holly’s got your Halloween fairy make-up needs covered.
- A deeply odd piece from Terrence Rafferty on women writing horror (with a bizarre slap at paranormal romance for not being horror, when it doesn’t really claim to be horror, does it? and seemingly for "being unreadable" for men… huh?), but, hey, I think we can all agree that Liz Hand ROCKS and the Shirley Jackson Awards likewise.
- Speaking of horror (and things that include Liz Hand’s writing), Bill Sheehan gives high marks to the new Peter Straub-edited anthology Poe’s Children: The New Horror, which I’ll definitely be seeking out.
- Genevieve Valentine’s extremely entertaining "No Objectivity: 10 Fantasy Movies That Ruined It for the Rest of Us."
- Chris Offutt’s literary lexicon.
- Jeff VanderMeer on the fun of writing his Predator tie-in novel. I just got both this and Brian Evenson’s Aliens book in the mail, and the resultant squeal of glee scared the post office people.
- Kelley Eskridge on late bloomers.
- Seasonally appropriate: Maud’s Witches, Demons, & Thieves trivia quiz.