In this podcast Ania Ahlborn talks about self publishing her first novel Seed, her LitReactor course ‘Making A Monster’, writing about families in horror, and much more. About Ania Ahlborn Born in Ciechanow, Poland, Ania Ahlborn has always been drawn to the darker, mysterious, and sometimes morbid sides of life. Her earliest childhood memory is of crawling through …
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Book Review: The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
“Blurring the lines between reality and the surreal, Ahlborn gives us a tale with nightmare written all over it.” Stevie’s best friend is his cousin Jude. Though he’s been going through a rough time, and he isn’t always nice to Stevie, Jude is really the only friend Stevie has. They hang out and play games, …
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Book Review: Black Static, Issue 56
“Overall, a great start to the year for the UK’s premier magazine of dark, literary fiction, which makes clear its intent to continue to be a showcase for some of the best writing the expanding and fluid horror genre has to offer.” And so we come to the first Black Static issue of 2017, and …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 20 February 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: Seven Great Horror Comic Crossovers Why You Should Be Excited About The New Halloween Film Horror Logic: Run Upstairs, Get Naked And Keep Filming When Does Horror Become Paranormal …
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News Round-up Week Ending 17 February 2017
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Special edition of Josh Malerman’s Bird Box to be released through Dark Regions Press First published in 2014, Josh Malerman’s Bird Box received glowing praise, as it told the story of a woman rowing her two children …
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Look Out For … Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Look Out For … Universal Harvester by John Darnielle “There’s just something about a VHS tape that’s creepy in a way that a DVD will never be.” Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It’s a small town in the center of the state–the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the …
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Book Review: Suffer the Children by Janden Hale
“The first part of the reveal proves to be quite intelligently thought out and executed, generating genuine surprise in the reader … It is in the writing, though, that the reader is let down” Suffer the Children begins with a high-octane scene, as a young, inexperienced man does his best to stave off the attack …
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Book Review: Highwayman by Craig Saunders
“This is book is more than just horror; it blends myth and thriller with a story that gives the reader a glimpse into the mind of a man who is truly tired of living.” Karl Goodman lost his daughter and it nearly destroyed his marriage. While trying to make it back to his wife, he …
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