Category: Reviews

The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King’s Epic Fantasy by Bev Vincent

  • February 18, 2013

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Stephen King started writing the first Dark Tower novel in 1970, although a mass market edition of the first novel in the ‘cycle’ did not appear until 1988. It quickly earned cult status, apparently concluding with the seventh novel in 2004. King returned to the story of Roland Deschain and his quest for the mysterious …

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Before Dawn (2012)

  • February 15, 2013

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Before Dawn is self-confessed horror and zombie enthusiast, Dominic Brunt’s first foray into filmmaking. Dominic found fame as Emmerdale’s longstanding vet, Paddy Kirk and has stapled his horror credentials to his sleeve as regular horror host of Leeds Zombie Film Festival. As a stranger to neither the genre nor the screen Before Dawn has all …

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Cthulhu Unbound 3 by Cody Goodfellow, Tim Curran, DL Snell, Brian M. Sammons and David Conyers

  • February 12, 2013

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The third in the Cthulhu Unbound series from Permuted Press features four multifarious novellas based around Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, each with a unique take on the creatures and cosmicism that fans of the source material will appreciate. Keep on reading…

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Manborg

  • February 11, 2013

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Those belonging to what one day may be known as the VHS generation (Betamax and V2000 never really got a look in) will hopefully remember with tremendous fondness coming home from the video shop back in those heady Be Kind Rewind days of the mid 1980s with the latest Charles Band Empire production. In the …

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Review: Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

  • February 7, 2013

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With the original Halloween John Carpenter created the slasher genre. Whether we should thank him or hang him rests entirely on whether we’re willing to assess the genre on its highs or lows. Keep on reading…

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Review: Lady Snowblood & Lady Snowblood 2

  • February 7, 2013

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It’s good to know that in the early 1970s, exploitation cinema was pretty much the same all round the world, offering audiences the requisite ingredients of beautiful girls, nudity, action, fights, and often quite a bit of blood as a result. Keep on reading…

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A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof by Roger Clarke

  • February 6, 2013

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If there is one constant in Roger Clarke’s informative A Natural History of Ghosts (it might be better called a social history), it is the ghosts themselves. While the living interpretation of what a ghost is or should be is forever changing, the ghost at the centre of it all remains the same. It seems …

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Review: Black Feathers by Joseph D’Lacey

  • February 5, 2013

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If the punchy, sexually-charged pulp of 2012’s Blood Fugue marked a welcome return to novel-writing for Joseph D’Lacey, Black Feathers marks an even more welcome return to the visionary eco-horror of his first two novels. It is also D’Lacey’s most ambitious work yet. Keep on reading…

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Review: Chained

  • February 4, 2013

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Chained is an early contender for most violent film of the year and it owes much of this to what happens off- rather than on-camera. Throughout Jennifer Lynch’s latest film there is a sense of foreboding and an ominous thread of terror. Viewers will find themselves on the edge of their seat, uneasy and waiting …

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Review: Dangerous Gifts by Gaie Sebold

  • January 29, 2013

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Gaie Sebold’s Babylon Steel was one of the most enjoyable debuts of 2012. The follow-up, Dangerous Gifts, begins once more in the anything-goes city-state of Scalentine, where Babylon Steel, sometime sword-for-hire, runs (and occasionally works in) the city’s best brothel, the Red Lantern. Recruited to bodyguard a young heiress, Enthemmerlee, Babylon travels to nearby Incandress, …

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