When I was a youngster, on one of many family trips to the Ackermansion, Forrest J Ackerman asked me, “Lauren, what’s your favorite thing in my house?” Without blinking an eye, I responded: “You.” My response remained true until “Uncle” Forry’s passing in 2008 (age 92 and still too young to go!). Of all the…
Author: Lauren Spear
Lauren Spear (née Tharp) is the owner of LittleZotz Writing, a super-respectable multiple award-winning website for freelance writers. She's also the HorrorFam.com founder! Lauren grew up in the horror industry (her parents did practical special FX work for many of the horror movies you love from the '80s and '90s) and basically created this site so she could freely gas on about creepy stuff and stop having to pretend to be normal.
9 Glasses-Wearing Horror Characters You Can Cosplay As
Okay, technically, there are ten glasses-wearing horror characters featured in this post if you count the Brain Gremlin from Gremlins 2: The New Batch in the intro/featured image up there. He’s too adorable. I couldn’t not include him. However, the characters I chose (with some help from my dad, Rob Tharp) for the actual written…
‘Til Death: Married Couples of Horror
Short post this time! I have something very important to celebrate today, but it’s a Monday and you know I couldn’t leave my online horror family hangin’! New HorrorFam.com article goes up every Monday no matter what! đ Today, I’m just going to give a quick shoutout to some of my favorite married couples of…
Podcast Episode 9: Dissecting Johnny, The Horror Hack
Get to know Johnny, The Horror Hack, as Lauren Spear analyzes his horror-centric YouTube content on this week’s episode of the HorrorFam.com Podcast! If you’d like to support the HorrorFam.com Podcast, you can make a donation through our PayPal button in the sidebar, join our Patreon, buy something from our Store, or… just leave us…
Escape the Room! Try Rusty Lake Games
Does sheltering-in-place have you climbing up the walls? A lot of folks wish they could “escape” their rooms these days. But, no matter how bored you feel, please obey the pandemic lockdown rules (for your own safety and the good of us all). You CAN, however, help virtual characters escape various rooms in Rusty Lake’s…
Podcast Episode 8: Heather Landry Debuts Her First Horror Novel â for FREE!
Horror illustrator Heather Landry AKA Sandpaperdaisy is officially a horror-fantasy novelist! Heather debuted her first novel, The Cradle of the Worm, as a HorrorFam.com FREEBIE on April 13th, 2020. Now, four days later, she joins Lauren Spear to discuss the book’s themes, her 25-year(!) writing process, and how â by pure coincidence â The Cradle…
Bored? We Got You, Fam!
Hey there! We’ll go back to our usual content on Friday, but… If you don’t follow us on social media (or make a habit of closely inspecting HorrorFam.com’s website menu bar), you may have missed this: We have a FREE STUFF page now!! Our illustrator â and my friend for just shy of 15 years…
Podcast Episode 7: Interview with Welcome to the Horror Show’s Ryan and Grace
Ryan Murphy and Grace Murphy (no relation!) join Lauren Spear on the HorrorFam.com Podcast to discuss their IGTV horror anthology series Welcome to the Horror Show! Lauren SpearLauren Spear (nĂ©e Tharp) is the owner of LittleZotz Writing, a super-respectable multiple award-winning website for freelance writers. She’s also the HorrorFam.com founder! Lauren grew up in the…
Podcast Episode 6: “Darcy” TALKS! Diana Prince Interview!
Diana Prince AKA “Darcy the Mail Girl” joined HorrorFam.com’s Lauren Spear to talk about all the crazy-cool things she’s been doing lately! No Joe Bob! Absolutely adore him; but, this time, we wanted to shine the spotlight on our beloved “Darcy” and share all the amazing things she does on her OWN for the horror…
Podcast Episode 5: Beetlejuice Special FX â Featuring Painter Rob Tharp!
In honor of its 31st anniversary this month, special FX artist Rob Tharp joins Lauren Spear on the HorrorFam.com Podcast to share behind-the-scenes stories from when he and Cathy Tharp worked on Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice! Follow along with the written transcript for a peek at amazing never-shown-before photos going behind-the-scenes of the 1988 classic film!…
