“For anyone who enjoys tales of post-apocalyptic gloom!” Coffle plunges the reader immediately and unceremoniously into a viscerally bleak world of slavery, pseudo-zombies and horror, in the truest sense. After an apocalyptic war, Ardenne—herself an escaped former slave—stands at the head of a coffle train of escapees, fleeing servitude across what appears to be one …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-coffle-by-gemma-files/
This past March, Atlanta, Georgia hosted the first annual Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird to a smashing success. With 2018 right around the corner, The Outer Dark is poised to turn San Jose, California weird as the symposium returns with panels and readings from the very best in contemporary weird fiction. On 24 …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/the-outer-dark-symposium-2018-gets-really-weird-at-the-winchester-mystery-house/
“This fish-out-water dropped into a dysfunctional family is the perfect setup for a creepy thriller tinged with danger.” A brutal triple murder forces the state to foster the remaining children of a Catholic group home in Long Island. Now living with a completely new, and quite dysfunctional, family, fifteen-year-old Robin Hills discovers her new family …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-angel-of-the-underground-by-david-andreas/
“Continues to push the boundaries between horror, weird, and literary.” Though still in the early stages of his writing career, Joe Hill has already carved out an impressive body of work. With four novels (including the exemplary Horns) a collection of short stories (20th Century Ghosts) and an award winning and wonderful graphic novel series …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-strange-weather-by-joe-hill/
“Erik T. Johnson delivers a magnum opus of staggering proportions and epic concepts of literary strangeness.” Collections of short fiction are sometimes difficult to evaluate from a critical standpoint, mostly because of the fact that they are often front-loaded with the best pieces the author has to offer and then the rest of the book …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-yes-trespassing-by-erik-t-johnson/
“With the odd, yet appropriate, moniker H.G. Bells, this book takes another stab at the end-of-the-world scenario, this time using insomnia instead of a zombie virus.” The world record for a human to go sleepless is eleven days. As a new epidemic of insomnia hits the world, everyone begins to wonder when they will …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-sleep-over-an-oral-history-of-the-apocalypse-by-h-g-bells/
“A bizzaro twilight zone episode played out on the page.” Apollo Unbound is a thirty-six page comic penned by the super talented Chris Kelso, featuring fantastic illustrations by Jim Agpalza that brings the tale to life. By the end of reading the comic, both of these gentlemen will be on your watch list…if they aren’t …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-apollo-unbound-by-chris-kelso/
“With this new proposed series, now is the perfect time to expand on those harrowing concepts, and Moody is the guy with the chops to do it.” A group trapped on Skek in the middle of the North Sea. Skek used to be a military outpost, a scientific research facility, even a fishing settlement. Now …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-one-of-us-will-be-dead-by-morning-by-david-moody/
“If you enjoy losing yourself in a well-written supernatural thriller with strong elements of horror, curling up in your favourite reading spot with this book may well be the perfect way to spend a long winter evening or two.” A fan of horror, science fiction and fantasy from a young age, it should come as …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-before-by-paul-kane/
“The Old West, a wicked virus scourging the land, and a young woman setting out across the desert plains to fight for what’s right … it has all the makings of a blockbuster hit everyone is going to be reading.” Ten years after the Civil War and things are still bad in the West Texas …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-devils-unto-dust-by-emma-berquist/
5 Must Read Horror Articles 11 November 2024 Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet…
This Is Horror Awards 2023: Public Nominations Are Open The public nominations are now open for the thirteenth annual…
Look Out For … Private Rites by Julia Armfield "With Armfield's latest, she reimagines King Lear with a tale…
5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 November 2024 Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet…
Look Out For … The Incubations by Ramsey Campbell "With his latest, Campbell continues to make life's most trivial…
