All New HauntedHouseChicago.com Launched
After many, many hours of development, an all-new website has been launched for HauntedHouseChicago.com 2014. The new site will be far more interactive and user-friendly, up to and including use on all mobile platforms and devices! They're not finished, so stay tuned in the months ahead for more upgrades and announcements.HAUNT OWNERS: All listings have been wiped, so please create a NEW user account for yourself and a NEW listing for your attraction. HHC thinks you'll find the process, both to add your attraction and to update it, will be much, much simpler now.
If you run into any problems or have any questions, you can contact HHC via email, Twitter, Facebook or Google+.
If you want to refer to your 2013 listing, you can access the old site at http://old.hauntedhousechicago.com.
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Win FREE Tickets to See THE QUIET ONES
ChicagoHorror.com has received a batch of passes to a free, advance screening of Lionsgate Movies’ THE QUIET ONES on April 24th. To get yours, just go to http://www.lionsgatescreenings.com/DarkChicago and click “Get My PASSES“!
Passes are limited and are first-come, first-served, so don’t wait!
From the producer who brought you The Woman In Black and Let Me In comes the unnerving tale of The Quiet Ones. Tucked away in an estate outside of London, Professor Coupland along with a team of university students conduct an “experiment” on Jane Harper, a young girl who harbors unspeakable secrets. What dark forces they uncover are more terrifying than any of them expected. Inspired by true events, the film stars Jared Harris (Mad Men and Sherlock Homes: A Game of Shadows), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Olivia Cooke (Bates Motel), and is directed by John Pogue from a screenplay by Craig Rosenberg and Oren Moverman and John Pogue, and based on a screenplay by Tom de Ville.
Gothic Blue Book Submissions Now Open
Burial Day Books Call for Submission: Gothic Blue Book VOL 4
Gothic Blue Books were short fictions popular in the 18th and 19th century. They were descendants of the chap book trade and are now a thing of the past. Burial Day Books will resurrect this art form with its own Gothic Blue Book Vol. 4 to be available this October 31st 2014.
What was a Gothic Blue Book?
Gothic Blue Books were abridgements of full-length Gothic novels. The subjects of these books fell into one of two categories; the first being set in a monastery or convent and the second being set in a castle.
In terms of the physicality of the book, they were three and a half to four inches in width and six to seven inches in height, with a page count of thirty-six to seventy-two pages.
These little pieces of terror were popular at the time because they were affordable, a sixpence or a shilling each. Their cost affordability led them to be nicknamed Shilling Shockers or Sixpenny Shockers.
What are we looking for?
Original Gothic Blue Books typically took place in either a monastery, convent or castle. In years past we have asked for short stories that take place in one of these locations, or a modern day location such as a morgue, haunted house or cemetery. This year, we have added a new entry – legend, folklore or myth of the Americas.
When we think of legend, folklore or myth of the Americas the range is staggering, from the Jersey Devil in the East Coast, to the Wendigo, American werewolf, La Llorona, vanishing hitchhiker, the woman in white, abandoned mining towns and so much more.
Please submit a short story or poem no longer than 3,500 words that follows one of the following:
A single mention or setting in one of the original Gothic Blue Book settings:
a) Monastery
b) Convent
c) Castle
A single mention or setting in one of the modern Gothic Blue Book settings:
a) Cemetery
b) Funeral home or morgue
c) Haunted house
2014 Addition:
a) A story or poem dealing with a legend, folklore or myth of the Americas.
In addition to the above, the story or poem must instill fear using a supernatural element – ghosts, ghouls, monsters, myth, folklore or legend. Extreme violence, sexuality, gore, and profanity will not be considered.
For inspiration look to Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Shirley Jackson, Emily Brontë, or Neil Gaiman.
The collection will be published October 31st 2014 in eBook and traditional book format.
DEADLINE: AUGUST 31st 2014
If accepted you are giving Burial Day Books:
A. The exclusive first right to publish your story.
B. The right to republish the story in or in connection with Burial Day, including electronic or hard copy form, including in promotional material or compilations – provided that authorial credit is given in every instance of reproduction.
After your story appears on Burial Day and in the Gothic Blue Book you are free to republish your piece elsewhere as long as you communicate to potential buyers that they are buying your story as a non-exclusive piece.
Payment details:
$25.00 (USD)
Two (2) Contributor copies of the anthology
Click here to submit you story: Gothic Blue Book Submission
Leave a Comment Go to Post...Sci-Fi Spectacular on April 12, 2014!
Sci-Fi Spectacular
Over 16 hours of Sci-Fi/Horror/Fantasy
April 12, 2014 – Noon ’til Late
Over 16 hours of Sci-Fi/Horror Movie Madness!
Patio Theater
6008 Irving Park Rd.
Chicago, IL 60634
Special Guests:
DOUG JONES (HELLBOY I & II, PAN’S LABYRINTH, HOCUS POCUS, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER)!
KYRA SCHON (little ghoul girl)from NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD!
Doors open at 10am – Show Starts At Noon
CURRENT FILM LINE-UP:
Early Extras:
10:15am-Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Hush Episode
with star Doug Jones in Person!)
11am-Stereo (Early David Cronenberg)
Main Show:
Noon-A Trip To The Moon (Silent with Live Organ!)
12:15pm-Godzilla Vs. King King
2:15pm-Legend (Ridley Scott)
4:25pm-Buckaroo Banzai (30th Anniversary)
6:25pm-Roger Corman 50’s Trailer Contest
6:40pm-Night of the Living Dead (star Kyra Schon)
in Person!)
8:30pm-Pan’s Labyrinth (star Doug Jones in Person!)
10:45pm-Escape From New York (John Carpenter)
12:30am-Dead Zone (David Cronenberg & Stephen King)
2:15am-Phenomena (Dario Argento)
Plus: Vendors, Prizes, Surprises, a live
Charity Auction for Vital Bridges (vitalbridges.org),
Free Picture Taking with Celebrity Guests & more!!!
Free Parking on side streets (check for permit
parking signs).
Tickets are $20 presale,
$25 at the door, day of show.
Kids under 13 at $10 at the door.
Presale tickets available online: http://www.brownpapertickets.
Tickets available at these stores:
Laurie’s Planet of Sound (4639 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago)
Thrift & Thrive (6025 W. Irving Park Rd, Chicago)
Shake Rattle & Read (4812 N. Broadway, Chicago)
Alley Cat Comics (5304 N. Clark St., Chicago)
Horrorbles (6729 Stanley Ave., Berwyn, IL)
Pay Once, Come And Go As You Like!
For late night festival goers, Chicago Hauntings Ghost Tours
will be giving late bus rides (1am to 5am) from the Sci-Fi
Spectacular to the Irving Park Blue Line “EL” for free!
For more info: facebook.com/terrorintheaisles & Patiotheater.net
Tattoo Arts & Horror Festival, April 18-20, 2014, Tinley Park
Immersed In Ink Tattoo Arts & Horror Festival will be making our next stop on the 2014 Tour in Chicago IL, on April 18-20 at the Tinley Park Convention Center.. This show is a celebration of pop culture in tattoo arts and films and features some of the hottest tattoo artists from all over the US. Live tattooing, gut wrenching sideshows, costume contests, Ms. Tattoo Pageant, human suspension, insane body modification, tattoo contests, guest appearances by some of your favorite horror celebrities and so much more! Click here to see Our entertainment line-up. The Huntsville Tattoo & Horror Expo is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
SHOW HOURS:
Friday : 2pm-10pm
Saturday : 11:30am-11pm
Sunday : 12pm-8pm
ADMISSION:
$20 per day ($3 Service Charge for CC Transactions)
$35 for a weekend pass ($3 Service Charge for CC Transactions)
Kids under 5 get in FREE with paying adult. Discount tickets can be purchased online.
CASH ONLY at the door. There is an ATM on site, but we do recommend that you bring cash to avoid the transaction charges.
COME ON FRIDAY IN A COSTUME AND GET $5 OFF YOUR ADMISSION FOR THE DAY!
COSTUME CONTEST IS AT 3PM ON SATURDAY. THE CONTEST WILL BE JUDGED BY A PANEL OF CELEBRITY JUDGES AND PROFESSIONAL FX ARTISTS — WINNER WILL RECEIVE $50 CASH!
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TINLEY PARK, IL:
APRIL 18-20, 2014
TINLEY PARK CONVENTION CENTER
18451 Convention Center Dr, Tinley Park, IL 60477
Host Hotel: Holiday Inn, 18451 Convention Center Dr, Tinley Park, IL 60477
ROOM RATE: $105 | 708.444.1100 and tell them you are with the group “Immersed In Ink”.
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