Book Review: Peel Back the Skin (Edited by Anthony Rivera and Sharon Lawson)

“The table of contents in Peel Back the Skin reads like a red carpet marquee of some of the greatest authors writing horror today.” The short lifespan that Grey Matter Press has enjoyed to date has been something of a phenomenon. It’s been just over two years since the publication of their freshman entry, Dark …

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Interview: Graham Masterton on Writing, Research and Violence

Graham Masterton

Graham Masterton is mainly recognized for his horror novels but he has also been a prolific writer of thrillers, disaster novels and historical epics, as well as one of the world’s most influential series of sex instruction books. He became a newspaper reporter at the age of seventeen and was appointed editor of Penthouse magazine …

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Look Out For … A Time Of Torment by John Connolly and Diseases Of The Teeth by Simon Kurt Unsworth

Look Out For … A Time Of Torment by John Connolly “Connolly balances both human and supernatural horrors with aplomb.” Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, …

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TIH 091: Iain Rob Wright on CreateSpace, Self Publishing Costs and Collaborations

TIH 091 Iain Rob Wright on CreateSpace, Self Publishing Costs and Collaborations

In this podcast Iain Rob Wright talks about CreateSpace, Self Publishing Costs and Collaborations. About Iain Rob Wright Iain Rob Wright is from the English town of Redditch, where he worked for many years as a mobile telephone salesman. After publishing his debut novel, The Final Winter, in 2011 to great success, he quit his job …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 2 May 2016

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: Halfway to Halloween: Walpurgisnacht is ‘Witches’ Night’ Frankenstein‘s Origins Can All Be Traced Back to a Violent Volcano Horror VR: How Virtual Reality Might Spawn a New Age of …

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Five Things Secret Cinema Presents 28 Days Later Got Right

Secret Cinema Presents 28 Days Later

Five Things Secret Cinema Presents 28 Days Later Got Right Having now been something of a cult event for a number of years, Secret Cinema was initially propelled into the mainstream a couple of years ago with their hugely ambitious production of Back to the Future which, despite a few teething problems, was universally praised. …

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This Is Horror Publishing Brand New Josh Malerman Novella

Josh Malerman by Andres Abdo

We are delighted to announce that we’ll be publishing a brand new novella by Josh Malerman later this year. Titled A House at the Bottom of a Lake this is another tremendous story from the award-winning author of Bird Box and we can’t wait to release it into the world. Here’s what Josh had to say. Let …

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News Round-up – Week Ending 29 April 2016

Here’s a selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Neil Marshall Produced Dark Signal to Receive BAFTA Preview Screening Welsh slasher-cum-ghost story Dark Signal will be receiving a BAFTA preview screening, followed by a Q&A with the director, on May 11 at the Chapter Arts Centre in …

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Horror Storeys: How the Modern Apartment Block Houses Our Worst Nightmares

‘You have to think of architecture as an expression of technology’ David Cronenberg ‘I think we are moving into extremely volatile and dangerous times, as modern electronic technologies give mankind almost unlimited powers to play with its own psychopathology as a game’ J. G. Ballard Ben Wheatley’s recent adaptation of J. G. Ballard’s High-Rise is …

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The Cutting Room – Cell

At the Boston airport, Clay (John Cusack) witnesses a scene of chaotic mayhem when an electronic signal turns hundreds of cell phone users into rabid killers. Desperate to find his estranged wife and his son, Clay teams with a train driver (Samuel L Jackson) to battle the horde of murderous “phoners” as the city descends …

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