Book Review: Whispers in the Ear of a Dreaming Ape by Joshua Chaplinsky

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“The tremendous talent of a storyteller unafraid to challenge himself through alternative narrative structure, or point of view, or subject matter. No matter the challenge, Chaplinsky knocked it out of the park.”   Perhaps best known in literary circles as the Managing Editor of litreactor.com, and in horror circles as the brilliant brain behind self-published …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 11 November 2019

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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: The Portalist suggest eight underappreciated horror novels by women authors Morbidly Beautiful presents an essay on surviving trauma through horror Author Gemma Amor shares her experience of writing a …

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News Round-up Week Ending 8 November 2019

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New novel, Doll Crimes, from author Karen Runge and Crystal Lake Publishing, out today From author Karen Runge comes Doll Crimes, her second novel. A teen mother raises her daughter on a looping road trip, living hand-to-mouth in …

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TOD 059 It Is a Tiger that Destroys Me: Latin American Literature as Weird Fiction Panel at NecronomiCon 2019

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents ‘This Is a Tiger That Destroys Me’ Panel at NecronomiCon 2019 moderated by Allen B. Ruch and featuring  Eric Schaller, Gabriel Mesa, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia, plus Reviews from The Weird with Gordon B. White including In Dreams We Rot by Betty Rocksteady (Trepidatio), Catfish Lullaby by A.C. Wise …

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Look Out For … Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale

Nightblood by T. Chris Martindale

“Once a long sought-after collector’s item, Martindale’s Nightblood is back in print, ready to pit man against an army of blood craving vampires.” Chris Stiles honed his fighting skills in the jungles of Vietnam. After he returns home from the war, his brother is slaughtered in Central Park. Now Chris is called back into action. …

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TIH 309: Nicole Cushing on A Sick Gray Laugh, The Half Freaks, and Witold Gombrowicz

TIH 309 Nicole Cushing on A Sick Gray Laugh, The Half Freaks, and Witold Gombrowicz

In this podcast we talk to Nicole Cushing about A Sick Gray Laugh, The Half Freaks, Witold Gombrowicz, and much more. About Nicole Cushing Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award® winning author of Mr. Suicide and a two-time nominee for the Shirley Jackson Award. Show notes [03:30] Conversation start [08:20] Completing her first marathon …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 November 2019

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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: The Guardian discovers which horror books and authors scare horror authors themselves Screen Rant look beyond big budget hollywood films, to choose the top ten horror shorts available online …

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News Round-up Week Ending 1 November 2019

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New Audible Original anthology, Homeless Bodies and Other Stories, available now Exploring themes of otherness, humanity, history, society and belief, Homeless Bodies & Other Stories brings together a gripping collection of tales that are unsettlingly eerie and …

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Look Out For … Beyond the Gate by Mary Sangiovanni

Beyond the Gate by Mary Sangiovanni

“With this third entry in the Kathy Ryan series, Sangiovanni rips the threshold between our world and the unknown in a race against time that puts Ryan’s occult knowledge to the ultimate test.” The Paragon Group discovers a strange alternate world while conducting their experiments. What they find is an empty world, inhabited only by …

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Book Review: The Reddening by Adam Nevill

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“The Reddening is an intense, chokehold of a novel. It grips from the start and holds you down as it makes you consume the horrors within.”   It’s been two years since Adam Nevill’s last novel Under A Watchful Eye was released by Pan MacMillan. In that time, Nevill has seen his novel The Ritual …

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