Sandra Ruttan: What’s your new book/work in progress about? Barbara Winkes: I have just introduced the all new covers for my Carpenter/Harding series. The next release will be #9, Implications, in which the protagonists Jordan Carpenter and Ellie Harding have to solve a murder that happened a long time ago. At the moment I’m writing...
Category: Fiction
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Barbara Winkes on What Fostered Her Love of Reading and Mysteries
My parents used to read to me a lot, and some of those stories continued in my mind long after the book was closed (this was perhaps an early attempt at fan fiction, but I soon came up with my own stories and characters). Words were like magic to me, and I wanted to practice...
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Witching The Book
by Margaret Kingsbury In fairy tales, witches are often scary, though not always. They sometimes eat children, curse innocent bystanders, poison fair maidens. But sometimes witches are the arbiters of goodness. When two stepsisters approach a witch and one helps her and the other mocks her in “Diamonds and Toads,” for instance, the kind sister...
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Haunted by Pain: On Ghosts and Trauma
by Laura Diaz de Arce Part 1: Dead Men DO Tell Tales Crimson Peak (2015) ends in a bittersweet goodbye between Thomas (Tom Hiddleston) and Edith (Mia Wasikowska). Thomas, already dead and a ghost, seems to acquiesce to Edith’s plea and distracts his sister Lucille (Jessica Chastain) long enough for Edith to kill her. It’s...
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Review: Midnight in the Graveyard
It’s the perfect month for a great collection of chilling tales, and when I saw Kelli Owen, Somer Canon and Hunter Shea were all featured it automatically piqued my interest. I received a review copy, and read the entire collection cover to cover. There are a lot of truly fantastic stories in this anthology. I...
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Rigor Morbid
On October 20, 2019 Bronzeville’s first anthology ebook, Rigor Morbid: Lest Ye Become, will be on sale. A collection 12 chilling horror stories. Is what you should fear the most who you are, or what you could become? The anthology leads with Hailey Piper’s The Law of Conservation of Death, which is available to read...
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Fiction: The Law of Conservation of Death
by Hailey Piper On the fifteenth birthday of your third reincarnation, you feel his breath on your skin. New skin, never tainted until now. At once the sky darkens, and balloons, gifts, and cake no longer matter as your lives come rushing back. You’ve turned fifteen before, but that’s the least of it. He’s found...
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Review: House of Salt and Sorrows
House of Salt and Sorrow is billed as a retelling of ’12 Dancing Princesses’, a Grimm fairy tale. Since I was unfamiliar with the original, which itself is a variation of fairy tales passed on to the Grimm brothers, I did not research the origin until after I finished the book. House of Salt and Sorrow may...
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Latinx Horror Films for Halloween
by V. Castro Halloween will always be my favorite holiday. It gives you something to look forward to once the school year begins, but is not as far away as Christmas. Growing up in Texas, October was also the beginning of a break from the sweltering summer temperatures. The crisp air and dark nights shifted...
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Who are the actual aliens in Roswell, New Mexico?
by Sarah M. Vasquez Roswell, New Mexico is one of the many TV show reboots in recent years, but it was apparent from the opening scene that this iteration is not a straight copy and paste version of the original. The CW show is about a woman who returns to her hometown to be with...