Samhain Screams will be released on the 17th of October—but the Kindle version is available for pre-order today at just $1.99 instead of $3.99. You can also add the anthology to your Goodreads list. Our aim is quite simply to make Halloween 2025 the spookiest ever with this anthology featuring twenty scary tales handpicked by Greg Chapman and Cameron Trost. Do you dare peek into the troubled minds of our contributing authors?
Hi Jacy,
What does Halloween mean to you and how do you celebrate it?
Halloween, to me, is the embodiment of everything I loved as a child, from the movies to the costumes to the candy. Sometimes I'll have a costume party with trivia, contests, and plenty of libations to the spirit of Halloween, but other times, I'll sit on the couch and put in my Halloween trio of movies. I typically start with Rocky Horror Picture Show, follow it up with Dawn of the Dead '78, and then finish it off with Trick 'r Treat. Either way, for twenty-four hours, I feel like a kid again.
Will you be donning a scary costume this Halloween?
It depends on which route I go. If I throw a party, and Halloween is on a Friday this year, so it's likely, I'll throw on some costume or other. I usually go for something topical and cheap as a costume. But you never know.
For Indian Corn, I tried to take everything I love about Halloween and give it an Indigenous spin. There's no deeper meaning to it. I just played with the things I love to create a classic Halloween vibe.
Do you have a favourite Halloween tale?
My favorite Halloween tale is definitely Trick 'r Treat. I also love the classic Halloween movie with Jamie Lee Curtis. But Trick 'r Treat has the most Halloween-like vibes for me. It perfectly encapsulates the feeling of anything possibly happening at any moment that I felt as a child out in the night knocking on strangers' doors.
What are you working on at the moment? What are you writing?
I'm currently working on This Rotten World 12: Burn It All Down, the twelfth entry in my popular zombie series. I'm also revising an anti-billionaire horror novel that is off the walls bonkers. In addition, I'm trying to sell four completed manuscripts, one of which is a fully fledged Halloween-themed novel!
Where can we find you online?
I have my seldom updated website, jacymorris.com and I can be found on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky. Just do a search for Jacy Morris Author, and I'll pop up.
Thanks for playing along!
