by Alexander Hurla Many years from now, when I’m old and gray and my joints hurt, I’ll climb into the dark attic and pull out a box from the corner— a moldy and moth-ridden one with faded words on the side. I’ll open it—almost reverently, almost scared— and wipe the dust from the picture of the crisp Marine uniform that used to…
On Wednesday, December 10, 2025, the Word for Word Literary Series proudly welcomed horror master Paul Tremblay! Tremblay has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Massachusetts Book awards and is the New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie: A Novel, The Beast You Are, The Pallbearers Club, Survivor Song,…
On Wednesday, April 23, the Word for Word Literary Series welcomed award-winning author Tananarive Due. A leading voice in Black speculative fiction, Due has won an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy Award. Her books include The Reformatory (winner of a Los Angeles Times Book…
On November 15, 2023, Word for Word, Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) online literary series, welcomed guest author Elizabeth Hand to read from her latest novel, “A Haunting on the Hill.” Hand is the author of 20 multiple-award-winning novels, five collections of short fiction and essays and numerous media tie-in…
by Rebecca LeBoeuf The experiences Kevin Flanders has as a reporter often give him inspiration for horror and paranormal fiction settings. A published author of five books, Flanders is working on a couple of trilogies and some stand-alone novels. “The Inhabitants” is a nearly completed trilogy about a haunted apartment,…
by Pamme Boutselis An author of Young Adult, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror Fiction, F.J.R. Titchenell’s latest book, “Confessions of the Very First Zombie Slayer (That I Know of)” was published by Jolly Fish Press and debuted in May 2014. Have you always written? Always. I’ve tried doing other things –…