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Ashley Worhol: Dead Bugs, Metal, and Cinema

Ashley Worhol: Dead Bugs, Metal, and Cinema

I needed a wing transplant for my tooth fairy, and that’s how I met Ashley Worhol for the first time in a decade. We were both vending at the night market at the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston this past summer. I was hawking my horror story

The Most Interesting Man In Texas Opens A Haunted B&B

The Most Interesting Man In Texas Opens A Haunted B&B

Walking up the steps to the 134-year-old RavenWolf Manor, I start thinking about Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour. One of the protagonists, Michael Curry, would stare through the fence every day at a New Orleans mansion rumored to be the home of witches. If I had to pick one

Houston’s Hardy & Nance Is The Place For New Artists

Houston’s Hardy & Nance Is The Place For New Artists

It’s the third Saturday of the month at the Hardy & Nance Studios. Nominally, the crowd is here for the Portraits in June show, one of the many themed gallery events that Hardy & Nance host twice monthly. While that part of the gallery certainly draws a crowd thanks

Queer Horror Authors in Texas

Queer Horror Authors in Texas

It’s a scary time to be LGBTQ+ in Texas, but the state’s horror authors are using their voices to make sure the terror is felt both ways. Gabrielle Faust is among the loudest queer horror voices in Texas. Since 2008, she has released twelve novels and anthologies. Her

When The Irish Terror Threat Came To El Paso

When The Irish Terror Threat Came To El Paso

A Forgotten Texas History EL PASO – The most militant offshoot of the Irish Republican Army had plans to move weapons south across the Texas-Mexico border and to smuggle its leader north from Mexico into the United States. This fact came out in testimony in the 2003 Dublin trial of Mickey

Burning Flipside: The Burning Man of Texas

Burning Flipside: The Burning Man of Texas

Outsiders call Burning Flipside an art festival; people who actually go there call it a burn. Set in the hill country around Central Austin, Burning Flipside is the Texas take on the Burning Man global phenomenon. Every May, thousands hike into the woods to live in what is essentially a

Comicpalooza Founder John Simons Returns As An Author

Comicpalooza Founder John Simons Returns As An Author

John Simons is the man who put Houston back on the comic convention map with Comicpalooza until he stepped away in 2018. Now, he’s back as an honored guest thanks to his new career as a fantasy and horror novelist. He’ll appear at Comicpalooza this weekend, hosting a