In this podcast Michaelbrent Collings talks about self publishing, social media, writing commercially and much more. About Michaelbrent Collings Michaelbrent Collings is a novelist and screenwriter. He has written numerous bestsellers, including Apparition, The Haunted, The Loon, Rising Fears, and the bestselling YA fantasy series The Billy Saga, beginning with Billy: Messenger of Powers. Show Notes …
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Cover Reveal: They Don’t Come Home Anymore by T.E. Grau
You may remember last October we announced the acquisition of a brand new T.E. Grau novella. They Don’t Come Home Anymore will be released November 2016 and we are so proud to reveal the cover art courtesy of Candice Tripp, design by Ives Hovanessian. Feast your eyes upon its magnificence. We caught up with T.E. Grau who had this to …
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News Round-up Week Ending 19 August 2016
Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… First The Dark Tower Footage To Air In October Although filming has been completed on the upcoming adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower there’s still a way to go before its release on 17 February 2017. …
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Book Review: Lost Signals, edited by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle
“ The end result is a themed anthology that consistently tunes the frequency to the fear channel, then cranks the volume up to eleven.” There are signals all around us, flowing through us. Most are undetected, though occasionally, we are on the receiving end of a transmission that alters our very lives. These lost signals …
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The Cutting Room: 31
A camper van of carnival workers are kidnapped in the middle of nowhere by a trio of debauched decadents. Set loose in a derelict factory compound full of creepy passages containing nasty traps, the abductors led by Father Murder place bets on who will survive the longest in a 12-hour period of pain and maim …
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Book Review: I Can Taste the Blood edited by John F. D. Taff and Anthony Rivera
“I Can Taste the Blood is a tour de force for Grey Matter Press and for the five outstanding dark fiction authors gathered here.” Any time you see the name John F. D. Taff coupled with the words “short fiction” you can expect that you’re in for something special, and the same can be said …
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Ghost Tours: Alone in the Asylum
Alone in buildings in a haunted lunatic asylum? Really? Someone does that by choice? Walks around a haunted 1800s lunatic asylum on their own, with very little in the way of lighting and a heap of ghost-hunting equipment? Yep. Seems I do that. It all started about six weeks ago. “Go and do a live-feed …
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Interview: Josh Malerman, Part I – Songwriting, Horror Fiction, and Rock and Roll
Josh Malerman is an individual who needs little introduction to the horror community at large. His novel, Bird Box, is one of the most remarkable and unique visions of a post-apocalyptic world that’s ever been penned, and it’s also one of the best debut novels to come along in recent years. That book received high …
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Book Review: The Unheimlich Manoeuvre by Tracy Fahey
“It is, quite simply, pure art, and we can only wonder what works this writer will produce in the coming years.” Readers looking for the best in horror fiction should keep their eyes on the recent, stellar offerings of the small press. The Unheimlich Manoeuvre by Tracy Fahey is one such release that recently caught …
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Look Out For … Crooked by Austin Grossman and Something Remains
Look Out For … Crooked by Austin Grossman “Crooked is a tragicomedy combining political intrigue and Lovecraftian monstrosities.” This is the story of the great con game that was the late twentieth century, of American history’s worst presidency, of how I learned to lie. It is not history as you know it. There are at …
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