Book Review: The Soul Standard by Caleb J. Ross, Nik Korpon, Richard Thomas, and Axel Taiari

The Soul Standard cover

“These four brilliant authors have brought their collective genius together to paint this unflinchingly violent, oppressively bleak city with the adroitness of world class painters, drawing vivid images on your imagination in varying shades of gray and frequent splashes of red.” Shared world anthologies are rare in dark fiction, and when they do come along …

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TIH 100: David Moody on the Hater Adaptation, Wattpad and Dealing with Depression

TIH 100 David Moody on the Hater Adaptation, Wattpad and Dealing with Depression

Happy 100th episode to us! In this podcast David Moody talks about the Hater adaptation, brand new Hater trilogy, Wattpad, dealing with depression and much more. About David Moody David Moody grew up on a diet of trashy horror and pulp science fiction. He worked as a bank manager before giving up the day job to …

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Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates and The Pale Brown Thing by Fritz Leiber

Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates “These stories combine suspenseful plotting with an astute eye for both character and setting.” Showcasing the darker side of the author’s imagination, Dark Travellings takes us from a post-apocalyptic future where music offers mankind its only hope to a quiet country lane where an apparently chance encounter …

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The Dark Water of Koji Suzuki

Rain Water Drops

Continuing my immersion in the watery worlds of dark fiction, I turn my attention this month to the work of Koji Suzuki. Suzuki, an award winning Japanese writer of horror, fantasy and SF is best known for his Ring novels, which inspired the famous succession of Japanese films before a series of American remakes. I …

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Book Review: The Booking by Ramsey Campbell

The Booking by Ramsey Campbell

“ Prescribing to his own rule of ‘avoiding what’s been done to death’, The Booking shows Campbell in top form with a strange and creepy tale that lingers long after the last page is turned.” For over fifty years, British author Ramsey Campbell has been scaring readers with his strange and wholly original horror stories. …

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Book Review: Stolen Away by Kristin Dearborn

Stolen Away cover

“Dearborn is not afraid of the dark, nor does she flinch at shocking, brutal violence and her characters face plenty of it as they race to save Trisha’s missing son from the clutches of a demon.” Recently there have been a lot of novels published that could be thought of as action-horror fiction. Motorman, by …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 4 July 2016

Resident Evil Nemesis

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: Ranking The Core Resident Evil Games Face Off! Independence Day Versus War Of The Worlds The History Of Dark Shadows Why Outcast Could Be The New Walking Dead Terror …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s The Dead Zone Revisited

The Dead Zone by Stephen King

Following along with the psychic phenomenon craze of the 1970’s, The Dead Zone was one of many of the books by Stephen King to show us the horrors associated with the mind’s untapped abilities. Carrie covered telekinesis, and later little Danny Torrance had his ‘shine’ in the appropriately named The Shining. Many of the characters …

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Going Live with David Moody in 30 minutes

Just a quick post to let you know that we will be going live for episode 100 of the This Is Horror Podcast with David Moody in thirty minutes. Listen and comment in the chatroom and live feed here (why not go in early and make yourselves known). If you’re tweeting as part of the conversation …

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This Is Horror Livestream with David Moody Sunday 3 July, 5–7p.m. BST

David Moody on Episode 100

Tomorrow we chat live with David Moody on the This Is Horror Podcast. If you return to this link the embedded player will automatically play the recording, however if you click through to the This Is Horror Mixlr account you can take part in the ‘chat’. We recommend this as you can leave comments and ask …

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