“This is a strong short fiction debut from a real writer, and one well worth your time.” Australian author Alan Baxter has been carving out a name for himself in the dark fantasy field with his novels, most notably the Alex Caine series, so it’s a good time for Ticonderoga Publications to put together his …
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Book Review: The Nightly Disease by Max Booth III
“The hotel is god. The hotel is god. The hotel is god.” Isaac is a night auditor at a hotel in Texas. His job is to be certain the “Goddamn hotel”, as he refers to it, and its guests are well taken care of but all he would like is a few hours to be …
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Look Out For … The Clairvoyants by Karen Brown
Look Out For … The Clairvoyants by Karen Brown “A slow burning Gothic ghost story that twists and turns and is infused with eroticism and psychological insight.” On the family homestead by the sea where she grew up, Martha Mary saw ghosts. As a young woman, she hopes to distance herself from those spirits by …
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Midnight Mix-Tape: January 2017 – Genre Never Dies
Uncle Jake’s here to hook you up with some of the latest and greatest horror short stories available online right now. Stories that will challenge, evolve, and redefine what horror is, and what it will become. These are themed mix-tapes of fear, dread, danger, and gore, lovingly curated just for your reading pleasure. Every year, …
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TIH 129: Diversity, Rejections and Gamut Magazine with Richard Thomas, Hillary Dodge and Heather Foster
In this podcast Richard Thomas, Hillary Dodge and Heather Foster talk about Gamut Magazine, diversity, rejections and much more. About Gamut Magazine Gamut is an online magazine of neo-noir, speculative fiction with a literary bent. Find more information at Gamut Online. Special offer for This Is Horror Podcast listeners: If you’ve yet to subscribe to Gamut Magazine and …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 9 January 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: Interview With Scream Factory Creators Texas Chain Saw Massacre Timeline 7 Walking Dead Characters Most Likely To Die In Season 7 Poltergeist Concept Art Surfaces Rare Ghostbusters Polaroids Emerge …
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Book Review: Under a Watchful Eye by Adam Nevill
“Nevill writes thoughtful, frightening stories that are calculated to infect a reader’s imagination and leave them scrambling for his back list.” Adam Nevill isn’t afraid to scare his readers. He’s familiar with the genre, but more importantly he’s familiar with the emotion of horror, and he uses this knowledge to full effect in his latest …
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News Round-up Week Ending 6 January 2017
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre Independent Italiand news that caught our eye during the last week … Independent Italian Indie Slasher, My Little Sister, scheduled for April release Scheduled for release on DVD and digital download in April 2017, My Little Sister finds Igor, whose father died as a result of his younger …
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A Keene Perspective: The Face of Horror Fiction in 2016 and Beyond
When you refer to the year in horror as it relates to 2016, it seems like a perfectly natural pairing. A lot of bad shit happened over the course of the year, political debacles aside, and we lost some of our shining stars in the music and entertainment industries. Around the world we endured multiple …
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