News Round-up Week Ending 23 February 2018

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New collaboration between Richard and Billy Chizmar, Widow’s Point, available now Available in both signed and unsigned hardcover editions, the new novella from Richard and Billy Chizmar is now available from PS Publishing (published by Cemetery Dance). …

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Look Out For … The Atrocities by Jeremy C. Shipp

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“Always inventive and exciting, Shipp’s take on the gothic fantasy genre is destined to be something readers will find unique and throughly captivating.”   Even after Isabella dies, her parents are still determined to guarantee their daughter’s education. When Mrs. Valdez arrives at their estate to tutor Isabella, her parents failed to inform her of …

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Streaming Screams: The New Scream Queens

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February is Women in Horror month. Obviously, we all read horror written by women all year round, and if you don’t then you’re missing out. They know what scares us and bring their A-Game to every story. When it comes to horror films, women creators are sadly under-represented. Fortunately, some of the best horror films …

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Book Review: The Church of Latter-Day Eugenics by Chris Kelso and Tom Bradley

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“Kelso and Bradley have joined forces to deliver a work of unadulterated Bizarro genius.”   Stalwarts of the Bizarro fiction scene, a collaboration between Tom Bradley and Chris Kelso seemed inevitable. With over twenty books in print—both fiction and non-fiction—Bradley has received praise from venues such as Forbes magazine and 3A.M. Magazine as well as …

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TIH 192: Antony Johnston on Dead Space, Atomic Blonde, Writing Video Games, and The Exphoria Code

TIH 192 Antony Johnston on Dead Space, Atomic Blonde, Writing Video Games, and The Exphoria Code

In this podcast Antony Johnston talks about Dead Space, Atomic Blonde, Writing Video Games, The Exphoria Code, and much more. About Antony Johnston Antony Johnston is a New York Times bestselling graphic novelist, author, and games writer with more than fifty published titles. The Charlize Theron movie Atomic Blonde is based on his graphic novel The Coldest City. …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 19 Feb 2018

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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: Slash Film make their case for love, not fear, being responsible for the best of what horror has to offer Sixteen Personalities analyses the different personality traits we, the …

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News Round-up Week Ending 16 February 2018

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Paul Tremblay’s Head Full of Ghosts to be adapted into feature film Oz Perkins, director of The Blackcoat’s Daughter and I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House, has been announced as the director and writer in charge of …

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TOD 030 The State of the Weird 2018, A Roundtable Discussion featuring David Davis, Helen Marshall, Stephen Graham Jones, and Sonya Taaffe

In this podcast David Davis, Helen Marshall and Stephen Graham Jones join Scott Nicolay for a roundtable discussion of the State of the Weird at the beginning of 2018. Also Sonya Taaffe discusses the state of Weird poetry. The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird is a unique immersive one-day event featuring approximately 12 hours …

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Look Out For … Unbury Carol by Josh Malerman

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“With Unbury Carol, Malerman takes on the Western genre, slipping in his own brand of weirdness we’ve come to expect from him, destined to make this story one we will not soon forget.”   Carol Evers has a secret. Throughout her life, she’s died many times, only to come back from the grave. She’s afflicted …

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Book Review: Witnesses by Anthony Watson

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“The story is one which harks back to those classic novels of the 70s and 80s, with its use of occultism, the impending ‘end of the world’ scenario. There are shades of James Herbert, touches of Graham Masterton, even hints of Clive Barker.”   Newly released from Crowded Quarantine Publications (run by Adam Millard, himself …

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