lisam – Lisa Morton

The StokerCon 2023 Keynote Speech

June 19, 2023

Good evening, horror family. I’m going to start this by asking for your indulgence, because I’m about to do something tonight I rarely do in public: I’m going to brag a little. I’m going to […]

The Art of the Zombie Movie

May 7, 2023

Whether George Romero’s implacable, slow-moving monstrosities or the fleet-footed terrors of 28 Days Later, over the last several decades the zombie has ascended into the upper echelon of the of the movie monster pantheon—an elite […]

Mom.

March 11, 2023

When you spend fifteen years caring for a dementia patient/parent, it can be easy to lose track of the good things. Here’s the truth about dementia: it isn’t just about forgetting what you had for […]

Fantasmagoriana; or, The Ghost Stories that Galvanized Frankenstein

February 7, 2023

(Originally appeared in Birthing Monsters: Frankenstein’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Cruelties, 2018, Firbolg Publishing) “It was not then a dream, a chimera, the fruit of an over-heated imagination! but a mysterious and infallible messenger, which, […]

Halloween Beyond – The Talking-board

September 13, 2022

Can ancient magic exist in the modern world? When Kayla’s sister Hailey went missing in the nearby Ghost Woods on Halloween night, the last person to see her was the solitary, elderly Brigid. Kayla, who […]

WILY WRITERS PRESENTS TALES OF DREAD

June 18, 2022

Sparks Fly Upward

May 29, 2022

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me. Job 17:1 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection… Revelations 20:6 June […]

HAUNTED TALES: CLASSIC STORIES OF GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATURAL

February 20, 2022

Following their acclaimed Ghost Stories and Weird Women, award-winning anthologists Leslie S. Klinger and Lisa Morton present a new eclectic anthology of ghostly tales certain to haunt the reader long past the closing page. In Haunted Tales, the reader will enjoy discovering masterpieces […]

A LITTLE YELLOW BOOK OF CARCOSA AND KINGS

November 24, 2021

Introducing the 2nd volume of Borderlands Press’s “Little Books” Series IV — Past Masters of Horror and Dark Fantasy. Series IV will feature the seminal works of many of the progenitors of the horror and […]

‘Tis the Season

October 28, 2021

The Halloween season, that is! Once again, I find myself making an effort to remember everything I’ve said and who I’ve said it to this year. Here’s what I can remember (and this list does […]