TIH 304: Nik Korpon on Wear Your Home Like A Scar, Old Ghosts, and Working in a Tattoo Shop

TIH 304 Nik Korpon on Wear Your Home Like A Scar, Old Ghosts, and Working in a Tattoo Shop

In this podcast Nik Korpon talks about Wear Your Home Like A Scar, Old Ghosts, working in a tattoo shop, and much more. About Nik Korpon Nik Korpon is the author of several books, including The Soul Standard, Stay God, Sweet Angel, The Rebellion’s Last Traitor, and Wear Your Home Like a Scar. Show notes [03:10] Weekly …

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News Round-up Week Ending 11 October 2019

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Sinkhole, the new novel from April A. Taylor, out now New from April A. Taylor (Corvo Hollows, The Haunting of Cabin Green) comes Sinkhole a new novel of unrelenting horror. A sinkhole opens up, swallowing a girl in …

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TOD 056 The Outer Dark Symposium 2019, Part 5: Ecstatic Weird Panel PLUS Readings by Jeff Strand, Kurt Fawver, and Zin E. Rocklyn

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents the fifth installment of The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird 2019 including  the panel ‘The Ecstatic Weird: The Weird as a Source of Transcendence and Awe’, moderated by Gordon B White and featuring Nadia Bulkin, Selena Chambers, Kurt Fawver, Orrin Grey, and Liv Rainey-Smith, as well …

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Look Out For … The Reddening by Adam Nevill

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“With his latest novel, Nevill goes beyond our concept of traditional folk horror and dives into a prehistoric nightmare with terrifying cosmic ramifications.”  Even after one million years of evolution, our nature has never changed. Sometimes the old deities and ancient rites return in the last place we’d think to look. For Katrine, a lifestyle …

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Book Review: Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro

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“Assured, controlled, poetic and artistic but also grounded in recognisable realities—even while imbued with the fantastic—these stories are remarkable enough individually.” Back again with another fantastic release from Undertow Publications, and this time it’s the debut collection of Laura Mauro. For those not in the know, Laura has been writing/publishing professionally since about 2012. Her …

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TIH 303: Nik Korpon on Genre Hopping, Literary Agents, and 500 Rejections

TIH 303 Nik Korpon on Genre Hopping, Literary Agents, and 500 Rejections

In this podcast Nik Korpon talks about genre hopping, literary agents, 500 rejections, and much more. About Nik Korpon Nik Korpon is the author of several books, including The Soul Standard, Stay God, Sweet Angel, The Rebellion’s Last Traitor, and Wear Your Home Like a Scar. Show notes [03:00] Conversation start/ early life lessons [04:30] Memories …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 October 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: Film School Rejects pick out their ten best coming-of-age horror movies Polygon dig into the themes of the classic, The Wicker Man, and how they relate to today’s politics …

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News Round-up Week Ending 4 October 2019

Night Creepers

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … From writer David Irons and Severed Press comes the new novel, Night Creepers Following on from his novel Night Waves in the early part of 2019, writer David Irons returns with Night Creepers, a new novel of horror from …

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TOD 055 The Outer Dark Symposium, Part 4: No Man’s Tale Panel & Readings by Jesse Bullington, Kyoko M, and John Foster

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents the fourth installment of The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird 2019 including  the panel: ‘No Man’s Tale: Female, Binary & Queer Bodies in a Weird Space’, moderated by Larissa Glasser and featuring Laura Blackwell, Craig Laurance Gidney, Sunny Moraine, teri.zin/Zin E. Rocklyn, and Damien Angelica Walters, …

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Look Out For … In Dreams We Rot by Betty Rocksteady

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“With a unique perspective and a willingness to tread the darkest waters of emotional turmoil, Rocksteady’s debut collection is set to twist minds and break your heart.”  Madness reigns on an island on the brink of destruction. Monstrous beasts stitched together. The tables turn on a voyeur. The rise of ancient sex gods. Never-before-seen insects …

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