In this podcast Elizabeth Hand talks about creative writing, life lessons, the seventies punk scene, and much more. Elizabeth Hand A New York Times notable and multiple award-winning author, Elizabeth Hand has written seven novels, including the cult classic Waking the Moon, and short-story collections. She is a longtime contributor to numerous publications, including the …
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News Round-up Week Ending 26 April 2019
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from Crystal Lake Publishing, Book Haven and Other Curiosities, by Mark Allan Gunnells From the author of Flowers in a Dumpster comes a new collection of stories to frighten you, move you and make you think. The …
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Look Out For … This is Midnight: Stories by Bernard Taylor
Taylor’s horrific short fiction is finally compiled in one volume, making this a must have for all horror fans. A man begins to feel ‘Out of Sorts’ while spending the night with his mistress during a full moon. With ‘Samhain’, black magic is the path for a witch wanting to get rid of her loser …
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Just When You Thought It Was Safe … We Never See the Monster!
Within horror fandom, there seem to be two schools of thought: show the monster or leave it up to imagination. The basic horror formula, three acts that expose the monster/evil near the end of the third act, was the standard for decades. And as long as there’s a payoff, it still works today. It doesn’t …
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TIH 272: [Interlude] Health Update, This Is Horror Awards, and Story News with Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella
In this podcast Michael David Wilson and Bob Pastorella sit down for an interlude episode. Michael explains a little bit about his recent hospital visits, before we jump into the This Is Horror Awards, story news, and much more. Show notes [05:40] Michael David Wilson’s Health update [39:55] This Is Horror Awards [49:20] This Is …
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News Round-up Week Ending 19 April 2019
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Night Shoot, the second novel by Scottish author David Sodergren, coming 9 May When a group of film students are running out of money, time and luck – and their lead actress has quit. In a …
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Look Out For … The Seven Deadliest, edited by Patrick Beltran and D. Alexander Ward
“With a roster of the brightest and most vibrant voices in modern horror fiction, The Seven Deadliest is easily one of the most anticipated anthologies releasing this year.” Avarice. Pride. Wrath. Jealousy. Sloth. Lust. Gluttony. These are the seven deadly sins. Seductive moral evils, spinning a deceitful web around human hearts, spawning all other sins. …
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Why I Wrote … The Bone Weaver’s Orchard by Sarah Read
Sarah Read writes deliciously dark fiction, and is known to use elegant fountain pens when she does. Her stories have graced the pages of Black Static and Gamut, and have been featured in many anthologies including BEHOLD! Oddities Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders, Exigencies, Suspended in Dusk, and The Best Horror of the Year, Vol …
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TIH 271: Eddie Generous on Unnerving Magazine, Radio Run, and Podcasting
In this podcast Eddie Generous talks about Unnerving Magazine, Radio Run, podcasting, and much more. Eddie Generous Eddie Generous is the author of Radio Run (novel, Severed Press 2018), Dead is Dead, but Not Always (collection, Hellbound Books 2018), and Camp Summit (novel, DBP 2019). He is the founder/editor/publisher/artist behind Unnerving and Unnerving Magazine, and the …
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