BRYAN W. ALASPA

A lot changed for me when I wrote the novel The Man from Taured. Not only has it slowly, over time, become one of my bestselling novels...

Hey, so, it's Valentine's Day and I have a couple of little gifts for you. First - I dropped a new short story for you Kindle folks and...

Just 9 days until my new book When the Night Comes Out arrives. It's a collection of horror short stories (and one novella) and, I think,...

Chicago horror author Bryan Alaspa announced on his website this week that 2018 will see the release of his latest collection of short...

As a writer, sometimes writing a short story is just the thing I need to cleanse my palette and truly come up with some scary stuff. I...

Spoiler alert: Look, this movie came out in 1977 and if you are a horror fan or nature-goes-amok fan and haven't seen it go watch it....

SPOILER ALERTS: This is a review of the 1978 B-movie and JAWS rip-off Barracuda. If you, for some reason, don't want spoilers about this...

Hello everyone. I just wanted to take a moment to thank you all for coming with me on the journey. The release of SPIDAR has been a major...

One of the questions I as an author get asked a lot is - where do you get your story ideas? I have talked about my latest horror book...

The first time I listened to an audiobook it was way back in the late 80s when my family and I were about to hit the road for a long...

Today is the day! At long last, the hype is over and now it's just time to be terrified. My new horror book, and first book published...

For my new novel, S.P.I.D.A.R., I decided it would be fun to set it in a place cut off from the rest of the world. A place where it would...

There are few spiders in the world with a more fearsome, and undeserved, reputation than the black widow spider. They are just the...

The world of insects... so much to truly be afraid of. Of course, most of it is at a very small level and most of the time you, as a...

Last year I was invited by the wonderful Kara Kohn at the Plainfield Public Library here in Illinois to a local author event. I went...

For the most part, we are pretty lucky here in North America when it comes to spiders. If you live in Central or South America or some of...

As I have mentioned, the world of insects is far, far more terrifying than anything I could write. It is a brutal world where almost all...

The world of insects is a generally terrifying place. As the Jeff Goldblum character in The Fly says - it is a basic and brutal place....

People have been afraid of spiders for a long time. The term of fear of spiders is known as arachnophobia. Of course, a phobia itself is...

This is the story of The Wraith. What the heck is The Wraith? The Wraith is a supernatural suspense/horror novel I wrote about a year or...