Look Out For … The Spirits of Christmas by Paul Kane and Nightmare’s Realm

Look Out For … The Spirits of Christmas by Paul Kane “The Spirit Of Christmas shows the dark and ghostly side to our festive celebrations.” Tis the season for something spooky–and in this, the first of the Black Shuck Shadows series of micro-collections, The Spirits of Christmas abound! Pull up a chair by the fire, …

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TIH 121: T.E. Grau on They Don’t Come Home Anymore, Professional Mindset and Novellas

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In this podcast T.E. Grau talks about his forthcoming This Is Horror novella They Don’t Come Home Anymore, how to have a professional mindset, the novella form and self-evaluating writing. About T.E. Grau T.E. Grau is an author of horror, crime, and dark fiction whose work has been featured in dozens of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 21 November 2016

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: Let The Right One In Showrunner Discuss The Pilot The Secret Of Long Lasting Horror Fiction Daren Shan Discusses Rebranding Himself Fede Alavrez And Sam Raimi Talk Don’t Breathe …

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News Round-up Week Ending 18 November 2016

New Shining In The Dark Anthology Contains Rare Stephen King Story Cemetery Dance are releasing a limited edition of Shining In The Dark, a brand new anthology of horror stories collated by Hans-Ake Lilja, founder of Stephen King website Lilja’s Library, to celebrate twenty years of running the site. Among the stories, which include a …

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Book Review: Wrathbone and Other Stories by Jason Parent

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“Parent’s descriptive prowess is masterful, his ability to paint a bloody and horrific picture in the reader’s mind is a gift.” Jason Parent is a horror author with two novels, two novellas and numerous short stories and novelettes included in various anthologies and collections, including one story in Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 1 (edited …

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TOD A31 Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward: Midwifing the Other: Nurturing Diversity in Weird and Spec Lit

In this archival podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, creators of the Writing the Other workshop/book. It originally aired on February 17, 2016. The broadcast also includes an exclusive new review of Nisi Shawl’s novel Everfair by author/editor Milton Davis (Dieselfunk, From Here to Timbuktu) and co-founder of the State of Black Science Fiction …

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The Cutting Room: The Passage

When terminally ill cancer patients get healthy after being bitten by bats in South America, the government conducts secret tests with human subjects to see if a virus can cure illness. Instead, it unleashes a swarm of bloodthirsty vampires out of the test subjects, which include death row inmates. Why we’re looking forward to this: …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary Revisited

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Sometimes, dead is better, especially when you read Stephen King’s classic novel, Pet Sematary. The book King himself claims is his scariest is really one helluva story, certainly one of his best, and still relevant today. This marks the third time I’ve read this book, and damn if it just keeps getting better every time. …

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Book Review: Blood Moon Big Top by Toneye Eyenot

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“A good werewolf story always makes people feel sorry for those afflicted by the transformation, but also sickened and terrified of their actions.” Kendrick the drifter finds his true calling when he joins the circus and becomes Marbles the clown. A chance encounter changes him forever, literally. Slowly his body and mind deteriorates until it leaves …

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TIH 120: Mercedes M. Yardley on Gamut Magazine, Rejections and Fairy Tales

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In this podcast Mercedes M. Yardley talks about Gamut Magazine, rejections, fairy tales and much more. About Mercedes M. Yardley Mercedes M. Yardley is a dark fantasist who wears stilettos and poisonous flowers in her hair. She is the author of the short story collection Beautiful Sorrows, the ‘serial killers in love’ novella Apocalyptic Montessa and …

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