By Tom Joyce — If you want to win over young adult readers with your horror fiction, go ahead and disturb them. Horrify them. Claw your way into their nightmares and confront them with mind-numbing terrors. But the one thing you absolutely CANNOT do, according to author Trang Thanh Tran, is write down to them. In this month’s edition of Nuts & Bolts, Trang gives advice...

April 2026 Kate Maruyama, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Committee. The sole purpose of The Seers’ Table monthly column is to introduce HWA members to the work of underrepresented demographic writers and editors whose work might not otherwise be viewed, using the broadest definition of the word underrepresented to include, but not limited to, gender, gender identi...

Terrors of Today – “Bedlam In Flesh” by Devin M. Anderson Originally published in The Horror Zine Spring 2026 issue He stands before you Five foot nothing Eyes ablaze Handcus dangling from Fingers bent at Impossible angles Made possible by the Brutal self-determination of Ripping cuffs off Already broken hands Narcotic skull bombs explode You blink, and he jugg...

Reviewed by Lee Murray Released 17 March 2026 from Watertower Hill Publishing Triggers: Mental illness, suicide ideation, violence. Victorian London. Isaac Bercow is a man with great aspirations, nothing to lose, and an offer he can’t refuse. Determined to make society notice—and believe in—his powers of mesmerism, Isaac finds himself caught in a trap of deceit, danger, an...