horror – Lucy A. Snyder

The covers to Garden of Eldritch Delights and Chiral Mad 4

Garden of Eldritch Delights and Chiral Mad 4 Nominated for Shirley Jackson Awards

May 30, 2019 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Two of my books have been nominated for Shirley Jackson Awards this year! Garden of Eldritch Delights has been nominated in the Single-Author Collection Category, […]

Garden of Eldritch Delights Nominated for Stoker Award

March 8, 2019 Lucy A. Snyder 0

I’m very happy to announce that my short story collection Garden of Eldritch Delights has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award! The Bram Stoker […]

Tales From the Lake Vol. 5

December 14, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

My story “In the Family” is in the new Crystal Lake Publishing anthology Tales from the Lake Vol. 5 (edited by Kenneth W. Cain). The […]

What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween

September 18, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

Celeano Press just released What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween. The anthology features fiction by me, Storm Constantine, Arinn Dembo, Cody Goodfellow, Nancy Holder, Brian […]

Ohio Horror Writers Association

September 5, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

I and other authors such as David Day, Tim Waggoner, Gary A. Braunbeck, Janet Harriett, and Sarah Hans recently formed the new Ohio chapter of […]

The Ballad of Black Tom

June 6, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

As a person who’s attempting to write thoughtful, modern weird fiction, I found The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle to be a pure delight. Go […]

The Horror at Red Hook

June 6, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 1

“The Horror at Red Hook” is a short story by H.P. Lovecraft that first appeared in the January 1927 issue of Weird Tales. The protagonist of the story is Detective […]

On Being Nineteen

March 20, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

When I started reading Stephen King’s Dark Tower novels, one of the things that resonated with me is his introduction, “On Being Nineteen”, which is included in […]

The Yellow Wallpaper

March 12, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 2

The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is a brilliant 1892 story that presents the first-person chronicle of a woman in a stifling marriage driven […]

The Masque of the Red Death

February 22, 2018 Lucy A. Snyder 0

“The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe tells the tale of Prince Prospero who, when hemorrhagic fever rages through in his kingdom, retreats […]