There is a period in cinema – roughly May to September – that is well known as the summer blockbuster season. This is the time of the year that studios vie for release dates against other studios to unleash their tent-pole movie that will hopefully clean up at the box office and ensure a healthy …
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Happy Birthday Stephen King: The Essential Guide to Stephen King
Today marks the 65th birthday of one of the giants of horror fiction, Mr Stephen King. We here at This is Horror couldn’t let this momentous day pass by without sending a little love in the direction of the man George Beahm calls “America’s Best Loved Bogeyman”. Read more…
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All the Fun of FrightFest 2012
FrightFest 2012 has been and gone and I have got through it all to emerge worn out, bleary-eyed, and totally and utterly delighted that I went. I’ve written about FrightFest before, but each one is a different experience because, not surprisingly, each features a different programme of films. Read more…
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How to Watch a Horror Film – The Ultimate Guide
It is true that no two people will get the same experience when they’ve watched the same film. It’s down to personal taste and your beliefs regarding a whole multitude of things ranging from religion to politics and sexual liberation to violence. However, it is clear to us at This Is Horror that one thing …
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The Fear of Spiders – Arachnophobia
Arachnophobia may very well be the most common phobia of all – or at least the most well known. We know that it covers all arachnids, but we’re going to concentrate on spiders specifically. Read more…
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Can we really trust book reviews? (The dark side of online reviews)
The stakes are always high, whichever game you find yourself playing where the competition is exceptionally fierce. From the perspective of bookselling and publishing, this appears to be especially so. There are countless authors out there, in both the traditional and self-publishing arenas, releasing the fruits of their labours by the hundreds every week, and …
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BC Furtney interviews Kate McGray
Ambition’s a funny thing. Sometimes, the goals that get us started aren’t the ones that inspire us to cross the finish line. That thing called Life always reserves the right to throw us a curve and send us in a direction we weren’t anticipating. When that happens, we can throw in the towel and call …
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Love – a new room full of fears
We are very fortunate to welcome one of Britain’s best and bleakest horror authors to the This Is Horror team, Simon Bestwick. In his opening column for the ‘Heretic Songs’ series he has delivered one of the most personal columns ever to grace This Is Horror. Simon speaks on love and the fears that come …
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Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein – a forgotten master of the horror comic
If you’re a regular reader of this column then you’re obviously a person of taste and intelligence. You might also have noticed by now that, although it’s ostensibly a column about Horror Comics, I tend to go off on tangents as often as an ADHD toddler in a ‘Shiny Things’ factory. Read more…
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FrightFest 2012 preview
It only happens once a year but perhaps the biggest extravaganza in the horror calendar is here again, folks. In less than twenty-four hours FrightFest 2012 will have officially began! Last year FrightFest won This Is Horror’s Event of the Year, as voted by you. And this year is looking bigger and, dare we say …
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