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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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: What I Learned from Stephen King: ‘Christine’ & The Roads Traveled Five of the Most Creative Monsters Why Sound Design in Horror Gaming Matters Jaws-Inspired Summer Reading: Part One …
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Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Secret Cinema Presents Showcases 28 Days Later Event The film that reinvented the zombie genre for today’s audiences, 28 Days Later, is coming to Secret Cinema Presents in a limited run in April, 2016. Danny Doyle’s …
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“Foster transcends comparison by a longshot with his own personal style while dispatching one of the most horrifying stories we’ve read in quite a while.” John C Foster’s latest novel, Mister White, is a strange hybrid rarely attempted before; a combination espionage thriller blended with hellish horror, heavy on the hellish horror. As strange as …
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In this taut psychological thriller by Karyn Kusama (Girlfight, Jennifer’s Body), the tension is palpable when Will (Logan Marshall-Green, Prometheus) shows up to his ex-wife Eden (Tammy Blanchard, Into the Woods) and new husband, David’s (Michiel Huisman, “Game of Thrones“) dinner party. The pair’s tragic past haunts an equally spooky present: Amid Eden’s suspicious behavior …
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“A comprehensive volume that is even more than the sum of its parts.” We here at This is Horror described Cohesion Press’ debut anthology, SNAFU, as having ‘consistent quality and extraordinary variety’. It’s pleasing to note that this follow-up volume, SNAFU: Survival of the Fittest not only maintains the level of quality but in a …
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