Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn Fashion Horror The Neon Demon Hits Online The first trailer has launched online for the much anticipated Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive, Only God Forgives) supermodel horror film The Neon Demon, and …
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Guess who’s going to be the life of the party? With the first day of April being the yearly celebration of japes, pranks and general foolhardiness, it’s fitting that we begin our journey of retrospectives on the horror films of yesteryear right here. When the film came out in 1986, it was advertised with a …
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On a flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo, a plane is shaken by severe weather. When the turbulence subsides, a passenger suddenly dies and a supernatural force is unleashed, overtaking the passengers as they desperately fight to figure out what it is and how to stop it. Why we’re looking forward to this: We’ve seen …
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“Cushing delivers a knockout punch that’ll leave you reeling and that will stay with you long after you’ve read the last word.” Ellie Blake is a closeted lesbian with sadistic leanings, desperate to come out but unwilling to do so in the bible belt community she lives in with her fanatically religious husband. Unfulfilled and …
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I suppose it could be said that I grew up with ghosts and the supernatural, and that the supernatural continues to play a part in my life, being, as I am, a Christian. Often, I’ve seen a reductive view of faith expressed on social media along the lines of – those of faith believe in …
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Aside from working in a bookshop for a year, and working as a journalist for a decade, the only proper job I’ve ever had was the couple of months I spent working in a porn shop in the middle of Leicester Square, about twenty years ago. Quite presciently, given my later career as a horror …
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Look Out For… The People in the Castle: Selected Strange Stories by Joan Aiken “Written a constantly engaging and evocative style, full of twists, turns and note-perfect endings.” Here is the whisper in the night, the dog whose loyalty outlasted death, the creak upstairs, that half-remembered ghost story that won’t let you sleep, the sound …
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“Bilof is the hitman to modern literary dogma!” What is the difference between a sociopath and an artist? When do those lines become blurred? These are among the many questions asked in Vincenzo Bilof’s latest novel, The Violators. Alan – a young writer full of self-doubt – finds himself accepted into a seemingly prestigious college …
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In this podcast Kristin Nelson talks about the Nelson Literary Agency, how to choose the right literary agent, writing a query letter and much more. About Kristin Nelson Kristin Nelson is President and owner of Nelson Literary Agency, LLC. She founded her agency in 2002, right on the cusp of traditional publishing morphing to digital, and …
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“Stories bleeding with talent!” Horror takes on many faces. Fear wears many masks. Peering into the glassy-still surface of the lake, digging deep into one’s darkest thoughts and extracting what it is we are most afraid of, you never know whose eyes you’ll see peering back from beneath the surface – a reflection of something …
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