Look Out For … Thin Air by Michelle Paver and Swift To Chase by Laird Barron

Look Out For … Thin Air by Michelle Paver “Thin Air proves a more than worthy follow up to Dark Matter.” The Himalayas, 1935. Kangchenjunga. Third-highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all. Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred summit. But courage can only take them so far–and the …

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TIH 113: Jon Grilz on Audio Drama Podcasts, Small Town Horror and Flawed Protagonists

TIH 113: Jon Grilz on Audio Drama Podcasts, Small Town Horror and Flawed Protagonists

In this podcast Jon Grilz talks about his favourite audio drama podcasts, the inspiration for Small Town Horror, writing a flawed protagonist and much more. About Jon Grilz Writer and podcaster Jon Grilz is Minnesotan, born and bred. He has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and a MFA in …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 3 October 2016

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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: 25 Must Read Books That inspired Films The Feminine Mystique In Hellraiser And Hellbound Interview With Filmmaker Todd Nunes Interview With Maniac Cop Director Nicolas Winding Refn Top …

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Book Review: The Awakening by Brett McBean

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“Able to hold its own with other great coming-of-age horror novels.” The Awakening by Brett McBean is one of those books that gives the truth to the old cliché about never judging a book by its cover. It is reminiscent of the covers that proliferated during the horror boom of the 1980s. However, this novel …

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News Round-up Week Ending 30 September 2016

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Throwback slasher Bonejangles set for 2017 release after being acquired by Wild Eye Releasing Bonejangles sees police taking an unstoppable killer to an asylum, when they find themselves stranded in a town where the dead are …

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The Cutting Room: The Walking Dead Season 7

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Up until this point, our characters have lived through conflicts… Disease, hunger, scores of the undead, tragedy, betrayal, and unthinkable loss. Through this, they’ve become formidable. Powerful. Unstoppable. To start Season Seven, that power is taken away. They had found safety and stability. They had created a home. They thought the world was theirs. They …

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Interview: Josh Malerman, Part II – Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Bird Box, and I Can Taste the Blood

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This is part two of Shane Douglas Keene’s interview with Josh Malerman. Malerman is the author of the breakout debut novel, Bird Box, and has stories published in the recent anthologies Lost Signals from Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, and in Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories from Crystal Lake Publishing. He’s also got a story in the …

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Exploring the Cold, Desolate Cosmos: Robert Aickman

Writer and editor Robert Aickman described his fiction as ‘strange stories’, though today most would agree his works exists fully in the weird. At first glance, especially for the uninitiated, his tales would seem to lean to the gothic side of literature, but once readers take the plunge and invest a little time in his …

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Book Review: Eternal Frankenstein, edited by Ross E. Lockhart

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“These stories and characters are sewn together to create one hell of an exquisite monster.” Ross E. Lockhart and Word Horde have a reputation for putting out some wonderful anthologies, among those are The Book of Cthulhu and Giallo Fantastique. Eternal Frankenstein shines alongside them with an intensely dark and beautifully macabre mix of tales. …

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TIH 112: Jon Grilz on Small Town Horror Podcast, Crazytown and Audio Drama Production

Jon Grilz on This Is Horror

In this podcast Jon Grilz talks about the Small Town Horror podcast, his Crazytown series, audio drama production and much more. About Jon Grilz Writer and podcaster Jon Grilz is Minnesotan, born and bred. He has an undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and a MFA in Writing from Hamline University …

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