It’s been a while since I did a ‘Who the Fuck Is…? feature in this column, focussing on writers and comic artists who aren’t anywhere near as celebrated as they should be. This time around I want to focus, not just on an artist, but a whole line of black and white horror comics from …
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“What follows is a convincing and often tense portrayal of domestic disharmony and broken, antagonistic relationships, with the added complication of a potential end-of-the-world threat looming too close to home.” Zombies. Shambling, decaying, occasionally running, moaning, reanimated corpses (or hypnotised humans for old-school purists, and infected people to antagonise the same). It would seem that …
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“Nick Mamatas has shown himself again and again to be one of the best, most conceptually diverse authors in genre fiction today.” When we think of weird Lovecraftian fiction, many things come to mind, things we’ve heard and read of so many times they’ve practically become embedded in our subconscious minds. Places and monsters like …
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“Highly recommended, especially on a dark and snowy night when the wind is calling and there might be murderers just around the corner.” End of Watch is the last in Stephen King’s Bill Hodges trilogy of crime thrillers which started with the excellent Mr Mercedes and continued with the slightly disappointing but still fun Finders …
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This is part two of Shane Douglas Keene’s interview with John F. D. Taff. Taff is the author of numerous novels, novellas, and short stories, including the groundbreaking novella collection, The End In All Beginnings. Recently, he’s branched out into the editing field, co-editing the extremely unique novella anthology, I Can Taste The Blood, with …
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“Another strong issue.” The months seem to fly by; late July and already it’s time for another issue of Black Static, that bastion of quality, literary horror. In this volume, there are no less than seven short stories alongside the usual opinion pieces and reviews. So, going from left to right … Issue #53 opens …
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“ Containing twelve stories—though exhibits might be more appropriate, pieces of art—which are as distinctive from each other as they are facets of the same intent and ruminations; namely that of the implacable, inevitable, and overwhelming power of nature.“ Often, a book comes along that forces a reader to confront and re-evaluate notions of what …
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Arriving September 27th from Titan Books, Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts releases in paperback and ebook for the UK. Winner of the coveted Bram Stoker Award, A Head Full of Ghosts has been dishing out the scares to readers since it first arrived last year, including Stephen King, who said the book “Scared …
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“What he calls the most important words he’s written may also be some of the most important words you’ll read, a song of mortality and a celebration of life that resonates in the heart and mind long after the final note is played.” The first thing you might think upon reading T Fox Dunham’s groundbreaking …
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Though he’s been called an overnight success by some, John F. D. Taff has been writing dark fiction, primarily in the short form, for more than 25 years now, with stories appearing in numerous magazines and anthologies, including Cemetery Dance, Eldritch Tales, Morpheus Tales, Deathrealm, Schrodinger’s Mouse, Night Chills, Big Pulp and One Buck Horror, …
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