“An exciting story with complex characters, beautiful prose and a compelling plot … Mills has delivered a piece of taut and suspenseful historical fiction that will please fans of literary and genre fiction alike.” Daniel Mills has built something of a reputation as an author of historical fiction. Indeed, he has openly expressed a …
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Book Review: In the Valley of the Sun by Andy Davidson
“A supernatural rural noir, reeking of Texas and blood, that grabs you by the throat and never lets go.” Travis Stillwell isn’t a very nice guy. Cruising Texas honkytonks by night, Travis plays the ladies’ man part well enough to add the notches to his belt. Unfortunately, the ladies never wake up after the …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 26 Jun 2017
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: Stephen King And Richard Chizmar Talk Gwendy’s Button Box Resident Evil Original Novels Q&A With Dead By Daylight Creative Director Dave Richard 10 Smart Decisions Made In Horror Movies …
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Book Review: An Augmented Fourth by Tony McMillen
“The individual elements of character, setting and description are intertwined like a strand of DNA to give this tale life and readers a quality read.” Tony McMillen is the author of the novel Nefarious Twit (Branch Hands, 2013), a book LitReactor selected as their Book Club Selection for March 2014. A wonderful achievement for …
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News Round-up Week Ending 23 June 2017
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Debut collection from Kristi DeMeester, Everything That’s Underneath set for release 29 August Apex Books present the first short story collection by Kristi DeMeester (Beneath). Featuring eighteen stories, Everything That’s Underneath is a collection of weird tales …
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TOD 014 The Outer Dark Symposium, Part 3: Readings by Craig Laurance Gidney, Grafton Tanner & Balogun Ojetade; “Not Another Bug Hunt: The Weird Monster as a Study of Singularity and in Différance” Panel
In this podcast The Outer Dark presents the third installment of The Outer Dark Symposium, including readings by Craig Laurance Gidney, Grafton Tanner, and Balogun Ojetade, as well as the third panel ‘Not Another Bug Hunt: The Weird Monster as a Study of Singularity and in Différance’, moderated by Daniel Braum and features Orrin Grey, …
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Look Out For … Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the ’70s and ’80s by Grady Hendrix
Look Out For … Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the ’70s and ’80s by Grady Hendrix “Little has been written about those pulp paperbacks that were an essential horror fix for those of us of a certain age in the days long before Netflix, until now.” SEE the amazing vintage book …
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TIH 152: Philip Fracassi on Writing Quickly, The Lovecraft eZine, and Best Writing Advice
In this podcast Philip Fracassi talks about writing quickly, The Lovecraft eZine, and his best writing advice. About Philip Fracassi Philip Fracassi, an author and screenwriter, lives in Los Angeles. His brand-new collection of stories, Behold The Void, was published by JournalStone on March 10, 2017. He has a novella, Fragile Dreams, that was released in …
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Book Review: Shadows and Tall Trees, Vol. 7, edited by Michael Kelly
“A good mix of established names and relative newcomers, Shadows and Tall Trees Vol.7 is a fine showcase for some of the very best in Weird fiction.” It’s safe to say that, at the moment, horror writing is in something of a golden age; if not necessarily in terms of sales, then certainly in terms …
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Searchlight: Mark Korven
We often think of horror and the weird in visual terms. Often, it is what we see, whether it’s the imagery in our heads, or the images on a screen, that truly creep us out. Yet, horror is an emotion, and emotions are receptive to all our senses. For film, sometimes the creepy comes from …
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