Category: Features

Horror and Speculative Fiction Awards

  • April 24, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

Writers are funny creatures. We all aim high, yet often miss. We all get back up and keep trying, without letting failure get in the way. Rejection after rejection, we keep sending our word-babies out there for everyone to judge. Keep on reading…

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/horror-speculative-fiction-awards/

Remakes: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Ugly

  • April 19, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

Remakes of beloved horror films are all the rage in Hollywood and, unfortunately, most of them are bad. Really bad. However, with the release this week of the remake of the iconic Evil Dead looking like it may buck the trend, we at This Is Horror sat down round a very big, gothic table and …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/remakes-good-bad-downright-ugly/

The ‘I’ in Horror

  • April 17, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

Writers of great horror don’t hold back when it comes to subject matter: nothing is off limits. Their stories go places that make readers shudder, sweat, squirm. Settings may be familiar, but somehow they are also warped. ‘Natural’ elements are inevitably of the ‘un’ or ‘super’ variety. Plots are designed to unnerve. In horror, the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/horror/

Australia’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: New South Wales

  • April 4, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

The oldest state in Australia, New South Wales, was the site of the first landing by the British in 1788. Eleven ships of the First Fleet set sail from Britain on 13 May 1787, with the leading ship, HMS Supply, reaching Botany Bay and setting up camp on the Kurnell Peninsula on 18 January 1788. …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/australias-terrifying-haunted-places-south-wales/

The importance of a life outside genre

  • April 3, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

I have often talked about what being an editor and publisher means, mostly in terms of the mechanics involved in the job and the prerequisites needed. A good command of English, an understanding of narrative and how stories work, as well as a huge dollop of good old common sense, are absolute necessities, as are …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/importance-life-genre/

Considering the legacy of women writers in horror fiction

  • March 29, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

February is the shortest month of the year, noteworthy for Valentine’s Day and making the annual batch of pancakes (poorly, in my case, and to the detriment of my kitchen!) and for the last two years it has played host to Women in Horror Recognition Month. I may be a month too late but, as …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/legacy-women-writers-horror-fiction/

Quartets and Canaries: The Wild, Sexy, Scary World of Radley Metzger

  • March 27, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

I always relish a challenge, and so when our esteemed editor here at This Is Horror asked me if I might be able to write an article concentrating on the more horror-oriented aspects of the work of highly respected erotic movie auteur Radley Metzger, I jumped at the chance. Three of Metzger’s earlier adult works …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/quartets-canaries-wild-sexy-scary-world-radley-metzger/

Wanting The Dusk: escaping the nine to five

  • March 26, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

I seem doomed to keep breaking my pledges where this column’s concerned. The first instalment of Heretic Songs was back in September, and I said I’d see you next month; after which, nothing more until February. In that instalment, I pledged to talk next about the role of supernatural horror fiction when religious belief wasn’t …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/wanting-dusk-escaping/

A Dreadful Fear of Clichés

  • March 13, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

I have a confession. There are a few (well, many) horror tropes that I just cannot stomach at all. Not because they’re cliché – although, of course, they are – but because there’s something about them that’s actually, fundamentally, terrifying. Keep on reading…

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/dreadful-fear-clichs/

International Women’s Day: Women of Horror

  • March 8, 2013

  • 1 mins to read

To coincide with International Women’s Day we’re celebrating just some of the brilliant women who make horror what it is today. Keep on reading…

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/international-womens-day-women-horror/