Category: Reviews

Review: Mockingbird by Chuck Wendig

  • November 27, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Chuck Wendig takes all the outstanding elements from Blackbirds, the first novel to feature Miriam Black, and dials them up to eleven for Mockingbird. Once again the pacing, pitch black humour and whip-sharp dialogue are a joyous treat that have you simultaneously desperate to read more and reluctant to devour the book too quick. Read …

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Review: Basket Case Trilogy

  • November 21, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (the 1980s), films like Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case were the staple diet of pale-faced video shop junkies looking for their next fix of weird horror mayhem. But times have changed and instead of ultra-low-budget, lovingly crafted, intelligently written midnight movies, we now get bland, mass-produced …

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Review: From Hell To Eternity by Thana Niveau

  • November 13, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Ramsey Campbell, a man who needs no introduction unless you have been comatose since the mid-70s, kicks this collection off with an endorsement for the many talented female authors out there. In a world where positive discrimination is still largely present in literature, he lists Sarah Pinborough, Alison Littlewood, Caitlin Kiernan, and a host of …

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Review: Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

  • November 12, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Don’t let the title of the recently released Resident Evil 6 fool you. Taking into account the various spin-offs and remakes that have shambled forth since the series’ birth in 1996, there are now close to two-dozen Resident Evil games . As well as the main instalments, the series now encompasses light-gun shooters, online co-op …

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Review: Osama by Lavie Tidhar

  • November 7, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Osama is a meta-fictional masterpiece that is quite unlike anything you will have ever read. Stop reading this review and get your hands on a copy now before anyone spoils it for you by trying to describe the characters, plot lines and themes in any conventional manner, which is simply an impossibility given the fluid …

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Simon Kurt Unsworth writes for charity

  • November 2, 2012

  • 4 mins to read
Simon Kurt Unsworth

Quiet Houses author, Simon Kurt Unsworth, has produced four chapbooks of some of his best work in order to raise money for Cancer Research. The chapbooks accompany a Halloween reading that Simon performs every year in the Cancer Research shop in Morecambe, Lancs. This Is Horror caught up with Simon, when asked about his motivation …

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Review: Coldbrook by Tim Lebbon

  • October 25, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Coldbrook is a new horror novel from bestselling author Tim Lebbon. The story revolves around a secret facility deep in the Appalachian Mountains – named after the eponymous and deceased genius Bill Coldbrook – where a small team of scientists have achieved the impossible: breaking through from Earth into a parallel reality. Aging Jonah Jones …

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Review: We Are the Night

  • October 18, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

Hollywood seems to be stuck in a perpetual loop; remaking films that don’t need to be remade and always looking for a fresh twist on an old idea that’s already been covered to death. Therefore, it’s always refreshing to find a little gem that comes out of nowhere. We Are the Night is a German …

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Review: In The Tall Grass by Stephen King and Joe Hill

  • October 16, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

In The Tall Grass is the product of a collaboration between two members of the most talented family in horror, Stephen King and his son Joe Hill. The story was originally published in Esquire magazine earlier this year and is King’s second collaboration with Hill after their 2009 novella Throttle. Read more…

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Review: The Fields

  • October 11, 2012

  • 1 mins to read

The cornfield is a horror trope that has been used countless times and it is utilised here yet again, to decent effect. The tall stalks can hide a myriad of horrors and on this occasion, they do just that. Read more…

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