On this special episode, I'm joined by Del Howison, owner of Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA and lifelong horror movie enthusiast. We discuss the movies that made us horror fans, usage of CGI in movies today, and what makes a great scary movie.
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Del Howison is an author, journalist, actor (see IMDB), and the Bram Stoker Award-winning editor of the anthology Dark Delicacies: Original Tales of Terror and the Macabre by the World’s Greatest Horror Writers. His western short story The Lost Herd was turned into the premiere (and highest rated) episode, The Sacrifice, for the series Fear Itself. His dark western novel The Survival of Margaret Thomas was a finalist for the Peacemaker Award given out by the Western Fictioneers. He has been nominated for over half a dozen awards including the Shirley Jackson Award and the Black Quill. He is the cofounder and owner (with his wife, Sue) of Dark Delicacies, a book and gift store known as “The Home of Horror,” located in Burbank, California. The store has won the “Il Posto Nero” award from Italy and been inducted into the Rondo Hatton Hall of Fame.
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You can find Del on Facebook and other social media as well as at www.DarkDel.com