News Round-up Week Ending 21 February 2020

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New collection from author Angela Slatter and PS Publishing Australia, The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners and Other Stories, available for pre-order now Available in this beautifully realised hardcover edition or in a signed edition, limited …

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Look Out For … Beneath the Rising by Premee Mohamed

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“With Beneath the Rising, Mohamed combines a coming-of-age story with a heavy dose of the Weird, with thrills and humor along for the ride.” Joanna “Johnny” Chamber is smart, from an affluent white family. Nick Prasad is brown, poor, and secretly madly in love with Johnny. Johnny creates a special kind of reactor that could …

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TIH 330: Kelly Dunn on Frankenstein, What Makes A Poem Good, and Writing Horror and Dark Fiction

TIH 330 Kelly Dunn on Frankenstein, What Makes A Poem Good, and Writing Horror and Dark Fiction

In this podcast Kelly Dunn talks about Frankenstein, what makes a poem good, writing horror and dark fiction, and much more. About Kelly Dunn Kelly Dunn is a freelance journalist, short-story writer, and novelist. Her short fiction has appeared in the Bram Stoker award-winning horror anthology After Death, the zombie anthology The Dead That Walk, and the …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 17 February 2020

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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: Sublime Horror cast their eye back beyond the 70s and 80s heyday of paperbacks from hell to mid-century horror The Ladies of Horror Fiction feature a guest post from …

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TIH 329: David Moody on Chokehold, The Bleed, and The Last Big Thing

TIH 329 David Moody on Chokehold, The Bleed, and The Last Big Thing

In this podcast David Moody talks about Chokehold, The Bleed, The Last Big Thing, and much more. About David Moody David Moody first self-published Hater in 2006, and without an agent, succeeded in selling the film rights for the novel to Mark Johnson (producer, Breaking Bad) and Guillermo Del Toro (director, The Shape of Water, Pan’s …

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News Round-up Week Ending 14 February 2020

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … From author V. Castro, comes Hairspray and Switchblades, part of the Unnerving ‘Rewind or Die series, out now When Maya and Magdalena lose their parents to a home invasion, Magdalena puts her dreams on hold and turns …

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Look Out For … The Midwives by Duncan Ralston

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“With his latest novel, Ralston combines true-crime with a supernatural evil from the least likely of sources … an innocent elderly woman.” Martin Savage is on a book tour, promoting his latest true crime book. Now, one of his most dangerous subjects—the “Witch Hunter”—has escaped. A depraved murderer, the “Witch Hunter” holds a grudge against …

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TIH 328: David Moody on Professional and Personal Changes, Running and Inspiration, and The Human Race Destroying Itself

TIH 328 David Moody on Professional and Personal Changes, Running and Inspiration, and The Human Race Destroying Itself

In this podcast David Moody talks about biggest professional and personal changes in the last three years, running and inspiration, the human race destroying itself, and much more. About David Moody David Moody first self-published Hater in 2006, and without an agent, succeeded in selling the film rights for the novel to Mark Johnson (producer, Breaking …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 10 February 2020

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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 commemorate forty years of John Carpenter’s The Fog, with this editorial Nico Bell features an interview with the ever-fascinating Tracey Fahey on folk horror and much more …

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TIH 327: Laura Mauro on Sing Your Sadness Deep, Naming The Bones, and Living with Anxiety and OCD

TIH 327: Laura Mauro on Sing Your Sadness Deep, Naming The Bones, and Living with Anxiety and OCD

In this podcast Laura Mauro talks about Sing Your Sadness Deep, Naming The Bones, living with anxiety and OCD, and much more. About Laura Mauro Laura Mauro started writing short fiction in 2012 and hasn’t stopped since. Born in London, England, her stories have appeared in Black Static, Interzone, Shadows & Tall Trees, The Dark, …

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