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Less is More: ‘The Dancing Partner’ by Jerome K. Jerome

It’s been a while since my last column, sorry about that – various personal issues and horrors of my own. But here’s a new one, this time looking at ‘The Dancing Partner’ by Jerome K Jerome. You can read it here first to avoid spoilers.  Jerome is probably best known for his comic novel Three …

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Look Out For… Within The Wind, Beneath The Snow by Ray Cluley and Discovering Scarfolk by Richard Littler

Look Out For… Within The Wind, Beneath The Snow by Ray Cluley “Promises to be something very special indeed.” Gjerta Jørgensen patrols the frozen coastline of Greenland. She is the first woman to do so as part of Slædepatruljen Sirius, an elite dogsled team pushed to the limits of physical survival, risking hunger, exhaustion, frostbite …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 15 December 2014

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: Gluttons for Punishment: Exploring the Death of the Hellraiser Franchise In Defense Of Holiday Edition: ‘Black Christmas’ (Remake) Zombies Are Over, Tentacles Are the New Meta 25 Best …

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Terror Tots: Home Movie

Christmas is just around the corner, and many a family out there will soon be busting out the camcorder to document their happiness at this special time of year. Years down the line, these captured memories of smiling faces and playful delights will be replayed for nostalgia, mirth and (perhaps) ridicule. But what if that …

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The Cutting Room: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death & Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead

Dead Snow 2

The Woman in Black : Angel of Death Forty years on from the events that saw Arthur Kipps arriving at the Eel Marsh House, school teachers Eve Parkins and Jean Hogg lead a group of evacuee children from war torn London to take up residence in the mysterious old house. It is not long before …

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Look Out For… These Last Embers by Simon Strantzas and The Dark Heart of Peeping Tom

Look Out For… These Last Embers by Simon Strantzas “Consider These Last Embers a must buy.” The inaugural launch of the Undertow Publications chapbook series, These Last Embers takes place in the dark recesses of the human soul, where nothing is more certain than the knowledge that you can never go home again. This sixteen-page …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 December 2014

Welcome once again to Must Read Horror, where we select five noteworthy horror articles in the hope that someone will read them. This week: Alien – Typseset in the Future Mobbed by the 3’s – Halloween III: Season of the Witch If It Takes a Little Digging: A Horror Fanatics Rant about the Good, Bad …

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Rocky Wood – Horror’s Gunslinger (1959–2014)

Rocky Wood

Rocky Wood (1959–2014) was the fifteenth president of the Horror Writers Association (HWA). Rocky passed away as a result of complications from Motor Neurone Disease (MND), also known as ALS and Lou Gehrig’s disease, on 1 December 2014. He was first diagnosed with the progressive disease in October 2010. No one expected him to leave us …

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The Cutting Room: Jennifer Help Us and Jurassic World

Jennifer Help Us “Jennifer Help Us is a story about a vengeful high school senior, whose violent kidnapping of a fellow student, collides with her town’s haunted house and its brutal past. The feature length movie was shot in the tradition of the late 70′s early 80′s style horror films.” Why we’re looking forward to …

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Look Out For… Feral Things by Erin Cole and Strangers by David Moody

Look Out For… Feral Things by Erin Cole “A gripping horror thriller exploring the werewolf as protagonist rather than just a beast.” Terror has claws and sharp teeth, but horror breeds in loathsome minds. A monster possesses Jamie Fisher, one with claws and sharp teeth. After waking in the Nevada desert, not sure of who …

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