It was way back in April of 2006, when Aaron Crowell walked up to my vendor table at Cinema Wasteland and handed me a copy of this new magazine they had just started, called simply enough HorrorHound. While I did a thing here and there for them, I officially became a columnist for them with issue #16, which was in 2009. Now, here is it 2024 and issue #100 is about to hit the newsstands. Where the hell did the time go?

I grew up with horror magazines, being the starting point for my horror education. While there were the reference books, it was magazines like Fangoria, Gorezone, Famous Monsters, and Cinefastique leading the way, along with other titles like Rue Morgue, HorrorFan, Slaughterhouse, Monsterscene, and countless others that came out over the years, was where we learned about our favorite movies and those behind them. So, to think that at some point in the future, I would be a staff writer for one of the leading magazines out there now is pretty surreal.

The thanks to that purely goes on the shoulders of Aaron Crowell and Nathan Hanneman, the creators of HorrorHound, and the ones behind keeping it going all of these years. Sure, there are plenty of others that are helping alone the way, such as Jeremy Sheldon, Jessica Dwyer, Jay Kay, Jessica Hanneman, and more than a few more, but it definitely is a team effort and the fact that we’ve made it to issue #100 really is something to celebrate, and something that I really am proud of.

So, to those that work tirelessly to on each issue, I thank you. And to each of you out there that continue to buy and support the magazine, I also thank you. Because it is for you that all of us do put in that work, in continuing to create a magazine that is fun, informative, and helps keep the passion alive and well.

Well done, HorrorHound. Here’s to the next 100 issues.