Benefits of Reading Horror

We always hear about the benefits of reading. Reading helps to decrease anxiety, depression, improve vocabulary and prevent cognitive decline (i.e. Alzheimer’s). These are the benefits we’ve heard all our lives. Most people read books for these reasons alone but what makes horror so special or unique. What are the benefits we can gain from reading horror? I found an article that promotes teachers to include horror in their curriculums (Teaching Horror Literature in a Multicultural Classroom). If someone has written...

Happy Friday Night Worms! I hope everyone is well and staying safe. So, there have been some things going on in the indie horror lit community as of late. If you know, you know. It’s not my place to make a PowerPoint and explain it all. And I’m definitely not here to rehash any of it because honestly, it’s draining and it makes our community turn on each other and forget why we are all here and connected in the first place. So instead of feeding into all of the controversies, I thought we...

Big Books
Don’t Fear the BIG

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Kami L Martin

I like Big Books

And I cannot lie. Now either you are singing that to the tune of the Sir Mix-a-lot, have no idea who I am talking about, or are rolling your eyes that yet another bibliophile used that metaphor! Maybe you are asking yourself how anyone can claim they like Big Books and be honestly telling the truth? Well, believe me- it's true! I like ‘em chunky! Give me a little weight on that binding! This wasn’t right away and...

WHAT WORKS FOR YOU

How I am (kinda) keeping my life in order as a bookstamom and how you can too (probably).

Hey everyone. I am Kallie. I’m a married 28 year old mother of twin 3 year old daughters and two weiner dogs. I’m an artist, a bookstagrammer, Night Worms blogger, musician, and all around badass. People ask me all the time, “Kallie, how do you do it all?” or “Where do you find the time for all that?” Well, I've been asked these things enough that I...

Fear of Loaning and Lost Pages
By Kallie Weisgarber

Set the scene. You're out to brunch with your best friend. Maybe there are mimosas involved, maybe not. Who am I to say? You are catching up from the last week or two since you two have had a chance to get together. They tell you about their work woes and their landlord who is jerking them around. You tell them about how the road to your workplace is somehow ALWAYS under construction lately and the most recent book you've read. 

And then it happens. The...