5 Must Read Horror Articles 14 September 2020

silent-hill-2-ending

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Bloody Disgusting step back to suggest how the Silent Hill franchise might move forward Author Cina Pelayo writes for LitReactor on managing a professional social media presence Tor Nightfire …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-horror-articles-14-september-2020/

News Round-up Week Ending 11 September 2020

Where We Live Tim Cooke EBOOK COVER JULY 2020

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Where We Live, a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by Tim Cooke, out now from Demain Publishing ‘Where We Live’ is a collection of loosely connected short stories that track the same central character’s …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-up-week-ending-11-september-2020/

TOD 081 Weird Metamorphosis or Life Change: Where the Body Becomes the Setting

In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 continues with Weird Metamorphosis or Life Change: Where the Body Becomes the Setting, the weekend’s first panel moderated by Lesley Wheeler and featuring Mike Allen, Benjamin Capps, Fiona Maeve Geist, Edward Austin Hall, Brooke Warra, and teri.zin. PLUS Mike Allen reads and Lesley Wheeler and featuring …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tod-081-weird-metamorphosis-or-life-change-where-the-body-becomes-the-setting/

Look Out For … Helena by Claire L. Smith

Helena by Claire L. Smith - cover

“This novella, both historical and relevant to current times, combines the ghostly with the very real horror of a rampant serial killer, just in time for the creepy Halloween season.” Near London in 1855, Helena Morrigan is tormented by poverty and the burdens of her past. A mortician and funeral director, she resides in an …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-helena-by-claire-l-smith/

Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

Crossroads by Laurel Hightower - final cover

Book Review: Crossroads by Laurel Hightower “Hightower strikes the perfect balance between horror and drama, sadness and hope, in this tale of tragedy and the purest love.”   It has been a busy couple of years for author Laurel Hightower since the publication of first novel Whispers in the Dark (Journalstone, 2018). Not only has …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-crossroads-by-laurel-hightower/

5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 September 2020

craig-whitehead-QtR3MXOZCn0-unsplash

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Tor Nightfire have five horror book recommendations for the end of summer Tim Waggoner writes for Nightmare Magazine on the rational versus the irrational in horror Richard Thomas crystallises …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-must-read-horror-articles-7-september-2020/

News Round-up Week Ending 4 September 2020

Night Voices Final Ebook Cover August 2020

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Dual author collection, Night Voices, by Paul Edwards and Frank Duffy, out today from Demain publishing Two writers. 12 Stories. Personal experiences. Imaginations running riot. Horror explored and realised. Difficult and challenging. Interconnected but unconnected. Troubled families. …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-up-week-ending-4-september-2020/

TIH 365: Chuck Palahniuk on The Invention of Sound, Fight Club, and Commodifying Human Experience

TIH 365 Chuck Palahniuk on The Invention of Sound, Fight Club, and Commodifying Human Experience

In this podcast Chuck Palahniuk talks about The Invention of Sound, Fight Club, commodifying human experience, and much more. About Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk is the author of many bestselling books including Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Lullaby, and Haunted. His forthcoming novel, The Invention of Sound, will be released on September 8th. Earlier this year he …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-365-chuck-palahniuk-on-the-invention-of-sound-fight-club-and-commodifying-human-experience/

Look Out For … Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark - cover

“With his latest novella, Clark takes a page from our darkest history, cranks it up to Hell on Earth, and maintains a great sense of relevancy of the world we live in now.”  It’s 1915. The film The Birth of a Nation has cast its deadly spell over America. The Klan’s ranks swell from the darkest …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-ring-shout-by-p-djeli-clark/

Book Review: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones - cover

“… Jones has delivered a masterpiece that will appeal to both die-hard horror fans and fans of exceptional dramatic writing.”   To list every book written by Stephen Graham Jones—or, indeed, every award win and nomination—would take far more space and time normally reserved for our book reviews, never mind the biographical section at the …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/book-review-the-only-good-indians-by-stephen-graham-jones/