News Round-up Week Ending 20 September 2019

Tricksters Treats Seven Deadly Sins

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New Halloween Charity Anthology Trickster’s Treats 3: The Seven Deadly Sins Edition, out now from Things in the Well Available now in paperback and coming soon in eBook format, Trickster’s Treats is an annual anthology of flash fiction …

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TOD 053 The Weird: The Next Wave, Readings from Rising Weird Authors at NecronomiCon 2019

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents The Weird: The Next Wave, Readings from Rising Weird Authors at NecronomiCon 2019 including Fiona Maeve Geist, Larissa Glasser, Hysop Mulero, Christopher Ropes, Candace Wiggins, Teri.Zin/Zin E Rocklyn, and the return of News from the Weird with co-host Justin Steele.  The Weird:The Next Wave was recorded live on …

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Look Out For … A Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs

A Lush and Seething Hell by John Hornor Jacobs cover

“With his latest effort—two tales in one book—Jacobs’ vision dives deep into the horror and corruption of the human condition as only he can.” The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky. A young woman tells the story of a poet-in-exile, feverishly attempting to translate a text, teetering on madness in a country in the midst of …

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Book Review: To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger

To Be Devoured by Sara Tantlinger - cover

“A compelling and harrowing debut that adds to the not insubstantial evidence that Sara Tantlinger is a promising and exciting new voice in horror.”   Sara Tantlinger began writing poetry while in Middle School, and has since branched out into longer prose. With an MFA in Writing Popular Fiction, it would be safe to assume …

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TIH 300: Adam Nevill, Joe R. Lansdale, Josh Malerman, Alma Katsu, Damien Angelica Walters, Stephen Graham Jones, Jon Padgett, and Kathe Koja

TIH 300 Adam Nevill, Joe R. Lansdale, Josh Malerman, Alma Katsu, Damien Angelica Walters, Stephen Graham Jones, Jon Padgett, and Kathe Koja

In this podcast we chat with Adam Nevill about self-publishing, Joe R. Lansdale about genre-hopping, Josh Malerman about the impact of Bird Box‘s film adaptation, Alma Katsu on historical research, Damien Angelica Walters on self-editing fiction, Stephen Graham Jones about language and word choice, Jon Padgett on mental health and parenthood, Kathe Koja on performative …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 September 2019

Gretel-Hansel

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 talk about the horror origins of Hansel & Gretel ahead of Osgood Perkins’ adaptation Bustle pick out twenty-one scary stories that you can read online, right …

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News Round-up Week Ending 13 September 2019

TalesforHalloween

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … The fifth installment of John Carpenter’s Tales for a Halloween Night comic series is available for pre-order Featuring a stellar list of writers and artists, including Kealan Patrick Burke, Sandy King, Steve Kilpatrick and the master of …

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TIH 299: This Is Horror Origins, Podcasting, and Why We Love Horror with Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella

TIH 299 This Is Horror Origins, Podcasting, and Why We Love Horror with Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella

In this podcast Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella are interviewed by Kelly Dunn of Famous Monsters of Film Land fame. We talk about the origins of This Is Horror, podcasting, why we love horror, and much more. About Michael David Wilson Michael David Wilson is the founder of the popular UK horror website (hey, …

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TOD 052 The Outer Dark Symposium 2019, Part 3: The Fiction of Forking Paths and Readings by Larissa Glasser,  Selena Chambers, and Edward Austin Hall

In this podcast The Outer Dark presents the third installment of The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird 2019 including  the panel: ‘The Fiction of Forking Paths: Weird Horror and Spec-Lit from Latin-, Afro-, and other non-Anglo Traditions‘, moderated by Balogun Ojetade and  and featuring  Milton J. Davis, John  C. Foster, Kyoko M, Gabriela …

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Look Out For … Tapetum Lucidum by Melissa Lason and Michelle Garza

Tapetum Lucidum by Melissa Lason and Michelle Garza - cover

“The Sisters of Slaughter combine visceral, blood-soaked horror with mind-bending psychological surrealism, unafraid to explore the range of human emotions.” Halloween, Brush Mill A group of friends accidently awaken something ancient and bloodthirsty. The strange glowing orbs falling from the trees aren’t fireflies. Now the hunters are free, ravenous and closing in on Brush Mill. …

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