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July 19, 2017
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6 mins to read
“With The Copper Cascade Chronicles, [Downe] has produced an accessible and entertaining entry point for his larger canon. And the highly professional delivery of the drama from experienced narrator Bayley only adds to the quality of the story.” Author Kneel Downe has taken a less conventional route to creating the work referred to as The …
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July 13, 2017
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6 mins to read
“There is more than enough contained within this particular issue—and, indeed, the magazine as an ongoing enterprise—to satisfy any who seek well-written, literary works of a dark bent.” Halfway through the year and it’s time for another review of Black Static, that purveyor of dark, literary fiction, insightful columns, and reviews/interviews. In this issue there …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-black-static-issue-58/
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July 11, 2017
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6 mins to read
“The combination of Chant’s solid storytelling and Peever’s dramatic narration is a match made in audio heaven.” Daniel Marc Chant is one of the co-founders of The Sinister Horror Company and a champion of horror and strange fiction, having published work by Rich Hawkins, Adam Millard and Kit Power among many others. He is …
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July 7, 2017
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5 mins to read
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Adam Nevill’s The Ritual Adaptation Trailer and Release Date The film adaptation of horror icon Adam Nevill’s novel The Ritual is coming to theaters in a limited run (UK and Irish cinemas) Friday, October 13th, …
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July 3, 2017
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7 mins to read
“…this anthology delivers some serious goods, like hard to come by contraband…” Hard Sentences is a collection of stories themed around those poor bastards serving hard time on the infamous rock known as Alcatraz and also the people and lives they left behind. The pain and sorrow in a place like that hangs around for …
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June 27, 2017
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5 mins to read
“An exciting story with complex characters, beautiful prose and a compelling plot … Mills has delivered a piece of taut and suspenseful historical fiction that will please fans of literary and genre fiction alike.” Daniel Mills has built something of a reputation as an author of historical fiction. Indeed, he has openly expressed a …
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June 23, 2017
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5 mins to read
“The individual elements of character, setting and description are intertwined like a strand of DNA to give this tale life and readers a quality read.” Tony McMillen is the author of the novel Nefarious Twit (Branch Hands, 2013), a book LitReactor selected as their Book Club Selection for March 2014. A wonderful achievement for …
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June 20, 2017
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7 mins to read
“A good mix of established names and relative newcomers, Shadows and Tall Trees Vol.7 is a fine showcase for some of the very best in Weird fiction.” It’s safe to say that, at the moment, horror writing is in something of a golden age; if not necessarily in terms of sales, then certainly in terms …
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June 16, 2017
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15 mins to read
The Star Trek Scripts of Robert Bloch April was the centenary of the birth of one of horror’s most important, and often underrated, writers–the much loved Robert Bloch. Although I’m two months late in celebrating this momentous date in the horror calendar, I still thought I ought to do something to mark the occasion. Bloch’s …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/injured-eyeballs-35-to-boldly-go-where-no-bloch-has-gone-before/
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June 13, 2017
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5 mins to read
Uncle Jake’s here to hook you up with some of the latest and greatest horror short stories available online right now. Stories that will challenge, evolve, and redefine what horror is, and what it will become. These are themed mix-tapes of fear, dread, danger, and gore, lovingly curated just for your reading pleasure. From …
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