Horror Curated Magazine
Curated by Lionel Ray Green

Legendary comic book artist Dan Brereton's obsession with Halloween started before he turned two years old. "That would be my first," Brereton tells Horror Curated in an exclusive interview. "I remember it because it was a bit traumatizing. I was twenty-three months old, and my mom dressed me as a devil. That part I was told, but what I definitely recall is being confronted by my two teenage aunts and my grandmother in their driveway—they were dressed as horrible hags, standing around a steaming cauldron of dry ice. I was terrified until they used their normal voices behind the rubber masks they wore to reassure me they weren’t really going to eat me. I’ve been obsessed with Halloween ever since." Brereton shared a few of his favorite Halloween things. Read the full interview in Horror Curated: Halloween.
Curated by Emerian Rich

Amanda is the owner and creator of Holding Aces. Her business officially launched in 2009, but she was holding a crayon before she even knew how to use it. The older she got, she took on every medium she could, eventually seeing the value of her work when coworkers and friends offered to buy them off her. Under the Holding Aces umbrella, she sews and creates accessories, fashion, and art. Read the full interview in Horror Curated: Halloween.
Curated by Emerian Rich

Tea seller Cassandra Raven has been creating fun and witchy-inspired products for seven years. She works with herbs, roots, and resins to make hand-blended incense and tea to sell in her Etsy store, RavenMysticUK. Inspired by her surroundings, she's extremely lucky to live in an English Victorian Gothic mansion famous for its hauntings and spiritual activity. Surrounded by woods and in the depths of a valley, there are always plenty of energies to work with. Read the full interview in Horror Curated: Bloody Tea.
Curated by Emerian Rich

Darrin Bardin has been making Horror housewares for about two years. While holding an array of day-jobs that gave little room for creativity, Darrin decided to start sewing. "These projects keep me busy and focused on fun things to make." He created D's Sinister Sewing 666 and sells his wares at Horror con vending booths around the Bay Area. Read the full interview in Horror Curated: Bloody Tea.
Curated by Lionel Ray Green

Multimedia artist Lynne Hansen specializes in horror book covers for some of today's most popular authors and publishers in the genre. Inspired by the horror novels she reads, Hansen seeks to tell a story with a single image, hoping to convey the symbolic heart of a character or novel like early twentieth-century surrealists M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, and more modern iconic artists like Alan Clark and Jill Bauman. Hansen tries to capture the beauty in even the most twisted nightmare images.

A resident of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Hansen is married to Bram Stoker Award-winning horror author Jeff Strand. In her interview with Horror Curated, Hansen explains how she collaborates with authors and shares her favorite ghostly encounter. Read the full interview with Lynne in Horror Curated.
Curated by Emerian Rich

Haunted ornament maker Nikolette Jones is an artist, illustrator, and educator who uses all sorts of media to create all sorts of art pieces that range from cute to scary. She alternates from making actual things like ornaments and bookmarks, to painting on massive canvases, to illustrating and designing book covers for various authors. Her day job is being a French immersion and art teacher. If it's fun and creative, she's all in.

I was introduced to Nikolette by a good friend (thanks Tim) who said we'd hit it off because we, "Have the same dark humor." When I heard she was reimagining old dolls into undead babies and repurposing dollhouses into haunted houses, I knew I had to share her awesome work with you fine adorers of all that's spooky and macabre. Read the full interview with Nikolette in Horror Curated.