Category: Interviews

Joe Hill Interview, Part One

This Is Horror News Editor Dan Howarth caught up with Joe Hill at the Twisted Tales signing event at Waterstones in Liverpool One. Joe was over in the UK on a seven date signing tour to promote his new novel NOS4R2. Dan took the opportunity to sit down with Joe and ask him about female …

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TIH 009: Joe Hill on NOS4A2, Family and Writing Novels

Joe Hill Triumph Bike

In this podcast Dan Howarth interviews Joe Hill in Liverpool Waterstone’s ahead of his NOS4R2/NOS4A2 launch. We then discuss the event in the This Is Horror studio. Topics [1:30] Joe Hill interview [2:00] Weather banter [2:48] Intention and expectations when writing a novel [8:05] Christmas and the macabre [10:34] Inspiration and the vampire mythology [14:10] …

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Interview: Alan Spencer

Alan Spencer is a horror author from Kansas City. His novels include The Body Cartel, Inside the Perimeter: Scavengers of the Dead, Ashes in Her Eyes: Uncut, Zombies and Power Tools, Cider Mill Vampires, This Town Eats Everything, B-Movie Reels and B-Movie Attack. Keep on reading…

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Peter Tennant Interview, Part III

Who are the authors that you look forward to reading when they release something new? Too many to list. I’ll restrict myself to three from within the horror genre and two outsiders. Within genre, Conrad Williams and Peter Straub, both of whom are consummate prose stylists, such that even the telephone directory would read better …

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Peter Tennant Interview, Part II

For those who missed part one with Peter Tennant just click the link, otherwise welcome back to our extended interview with Peter Tennant. Keep on reading…

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Jerry Pyle

Jerry Pyle, the filmmaker behind the thriller, Burn, is a writer/director living in Santa Monica, California. Keep on reading…

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Interview: Greg Chapman

Greg Chapman is the author of the novellas Torment, The Noctuary (Damnation Books 2011) and Vaudeville (Dark Prints Press 2012). He also illustrated the graphic novel Witch Hunts: A Graphic History of the Burning Times, written by Bram Stoker Award winners Rocky Wood and Lisa Morton. Keep on reading…

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Interview: Claudia Gerini

Recently our esteemed columnist, John Llewellyn Probert caught up with Claudia Gerini the star of Tulpa, the brilliant celebratory pastiche of Italian exploitation which we were fortunate enough to catch at last year’s FrightFest extravaganza. Tulpa is released in Italy this month and plans for a UK release are still ongoing. Keep on reading…

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Interview: Jeremy C. Shipp

Jeremy C. Shipp is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Cursed, Vacation and Attic Clowns. His shorter tales have appeared or are forthcoming in over 60 publications, the likes of Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Apex Magazine, Withersin and Shroud. Keep on reading…

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Peter Tennant Interview, Part I

We recently caught up with Peter Tennant, prolific author of horror, fantasy and speculative fiction and regular reviewer for the This Is Horror Magazine of the Year, Black Static. Keep on reading…

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