Autumn is coming

Happy Monday. Fall is on its way, and it’s time for Did You Know. Fall, autumn, autumnal equinox, the time of the harvest moon … whatever you choose to call it, the season between summer and winter is almost upon us in the Northern Hemisphere. But did you know the English term autumn, which predates …

True Crime Sunday: The Death of Jeannette DePalma

Welcome back to True Crime Sunday! This week we’re looking at an unsolved case in which the “why” and “how” are just as mysterious as the “who.” On August 7, 1972, sixteen-year-old Jeanette DePalma left her New Jersey home to visit a friend, but she never made it. When she failed to return home, her …

Donn, TX

Happy Friday! What is everyone reading? Hey, do you enjoy books in a series? Where the author has created a world or mythos you can visit and revisit as the mood takes you? Many of us do. But sometimes having to read stories in a particular order can make it tedious. Well … we have …

#TBT Tip of the Iceberg

Happy Throwback Thursday. In September of 2017, Stitched Smile Publications released Tip of the Iceberg by Ash Hartwell. Esme Jackson grew up in the slums around the Southampton docks with dreams of travel and a better life for her sister. Bridget Grafton was born to Boston wealth and married to an arrogant, violent English industrialist. …

Haunted Locations: The Dark Mirror from Columbus, Ohio

Welcome back to weird Wednesday where we like to scour the internet for the scary and the strange, the mysterious and the macabre, today our search takes us the Traveling Museum of the Paranormal and Occult, owned and curated by Dana and Greg Newkirk. Today’s object is known as The Dark Mirror, originally obtained from …

HoS Magazine Halloween Issue

Happy Tuesday. Let’s take another peek at the upcoming Halloween Issue of House of Stitched Magazine. Halloween is a great time to visit classic slashers. In this issue, we will be looking at slasher icons Michael Myers from Halloween and Jason Vorhees from Friday the 13th. We will be taking an in-depth look at both …

Publishing … DYK

Happy Monday! It’s time for Did You Know. Did you know getting published by one of the major publishing houses does not guarantee advertisement and big sales? With the recent controversy over the sale of Simon & Schuster (one of the big 5) all over the news, a lot of truths about the publishing world …

True Crime Sunday: The Hinterkaifeck Murders

Welcome back to True Crime Sunday! This week we’re taking a look at a creepy story that is Germany’s oldest unsolved case. On the night of March 31, 1922, the six people living at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead in Bavaria were murdered. The victims were Andreas and Cäzilia Gruber, their widowed daughter Viktoria Gabriel, Viktoria's children, …

HoS Magazine Teaser

Happy Friday! The House of Stitched Magazine Halloween issue will be out soon, and we can hardly wait for you to see what we have for you. While we aren’t going to show it to you yet, we are proud to announce the cover art for the Halloween issue is done by J.K. Pevahouse. J.K. …

TBT Broken Birds

Happy Throwback Thursday. Three years ago in 2019, Stitched Smile Publications released Broken Birds by Peter Molnar. Will Bentley is an Iraq War veteran turned Pulitzer Prize winner after his military memoir, I Can Hear the Shi’ite Weeping, propels him to seemingly overnight literary stardom. But Will craves nothing more than a quiet, uneventful life spent with his …