News Round-up Week Ending 24 June 2016

The Walking Dead Rick and Negan

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… How The Walking Dead Plans To Keep That Big Death Under Wraps (Spoilers follow, so look away now if you’re not up to date.) There was much moaning among Walking Dead fans at the recent season six …

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The Cutting Room – Westworld

Westworld HBO

A lawyer and businessman are among the visitors to Westworld, a futuristic theme park where the gunhands and dance hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests’ violent and lustful fantasies—until something goes wrong with their circuitry. No longer the guests’ obliging victim, a black-clad humanoid gunslinger turns on the two heroes and …

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The House of Dread is Closed, Long Live Penny Dreadful

Penny Dreadful

The House of Dread is Closed, Long Live Penny Dreadful The following article covers the end of the television series Penny Dreadful, and while it does not go into any great detail, it does contain spoilers concerning the series finale. Readers are encouraged to proceed with caution. After three seasons, Showtime and Sky’s production of …

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Look Out For… After The Fog Clears by Lee Thompson and The Cold Embrace: Weird Stories by Women

Look Out For… After The Fog Clears by Lee Thompson “Thompson combines the breakneck pace of the best thrillers with the dark atmospherics of horror, with the result being distinctively his own.” When a policeman accidentally runs over a young boy on a fog-shrouded street in Saginaw, Michigan, it thrusts three families into a head-on …

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TIH 098: Paul Tremblay on Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts and Story Ideas

Paul Tremblay This Is Horror 098

In this podcast Paul Tremblay talks about his new novel Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, A Head Full of Ghosts and story ideas. About Paul Tremblay Paul Tremblay is the author of the novels Disappearance at Devil’s Rock and A Head Full of Ghosts. His other novels include The Little Sleep, No Sleep till Wonderland, Swallowing a Donkey’s …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 20 June 2016

Charles Band

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: Charles Band And Full Moon Pictures Face Off! Wrong Turn Versus The Hills Have Eyes Penny Dreadful: Creating A World Of The Supernatural 8 Great Book To Film Horror …

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TOD A01 Livia Llewellyn: We Become Our Own Horror

In this archival podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Livia Llewellyn, author of Furnace (Word Horde, 2016). It was recorded on June 22, 2015 and originally aired on June 23, 2015. Show Notes In The Outer Dark’s inaugural episode, Livia Llewellyn previews Furnace (0:01:00, 0:11:30), her second short story collection published by Word Horde in Feb. 2016, and …

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PMMP Set to Broadcast Lost Signals in August

Lost Signals cover

Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing has become synonymous with quality fiction that pushes the boundaries of reality, proving the world around us is often as unreliable as the narrator of the story. Their forthcoming anthology, Lost Signals, is one of the most anticipated volumes releasing this year and further evidence that they have their radar set …

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News Round-up Week Ending 17 June 2016

The Rezort

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Jurassic Park With Zombies in The Rezort Set in a post-zombie-apocalyptic world where mankind has created a carefully controlled zombie safari park, The Rezort sees the inevitable system breakdown, unleashing the army of the undead to wreak …

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TOD A25 Henry Lien: The Elegant Art of the Literary Duel

TODA25-Henry Lien The Elegant Art of the Literary Duel

In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Henry Lien, author of the Nebula Award-nominated ‘The Ladies Aquatic Gardening Society’ (Asimov’s, June 2015). Show Notes There’s no one quite like Henry Lien in spec-lit today. He has generated major buzz with just six unique stories. His first published story ‘Pearl Rehabilitative Colony for Ungrateful Daughters’, which features “an art form that …

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