News Round-up Week Ending 4 March 2016

Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Stephen King Confirms The Dark Tower Movie In Production and Names Stars Stephen King has confirmed via Twitter that his long gestating The Dark Tower movie adaptation is now in production. Not only that, the writer …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-up-week-ending-march-4-2016/

Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen and The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen “Machen wrote works where the supernatural was as much spiritual as scary, in doing so producing a wholly distinctive body of work.” The Cosy Room and Other Stories is a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth (aka Fytton Armstrong) …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-the-cosy-room-and-other-stories-by-arthur-machen-and-the-ghost-train-doesnt-stop-here-anymore/

TIH 082: Rebecca Jones-Howe on Vile Men and Online vs. College Writing Communities

TIH 082- Rebecca Jones-Howe on Vile Men and Online vs. College Writing Communities

In this podcast Rebecca Jones-Howe talks about Vile Men and Online vs. College Writing Communities. About Rebecca Jones-Howe Rebecca went to college with the intention of getting a degree in Journalism, however, she dropped out in her second year when her Creative Writing class became the only one she ever went to. Since then, she found a group of …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-082-rebecca-jones-howe-on-vile-men-and-online-vs-college-writing-communities/

Voluntarily Committed: My Stay in a Haunted Asylum – Part Three

Day Two A day in a dusty Asylum is much better when started with a shower.  Even though I used the other shower this time, in a completely different room, I still had that uneasy feeling of company when no one else was there. It was a very quick shower. Croissants again for brekkie and …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/voluntarily-committed-my-stay-in-a-haunted-asylum-part-three/

News Round-up Week Ending 26 February 2016

Here’s a selection of some of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week… Stephen King’s The Mist Set To Become TV Series Dimension Television — who has recently found success with their TV version of the Scream franchise — has announced that they plan to develop the Stephen King …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/news-round-up-week-ending-26-february-2016/

This Is Horror Awards 2015: The Winners

Hannibal Season 3 This Is Horror Award

Thank you to everyone who voted and to all the amazing creators for creating. 2015 was a phenomenal year for horror. Here are the winners of the This Is Horror Awards 2015. Novel of the Year Winner: A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay Runner-up: Lost Girl by Adam Nevill Thank you to everyone involved with THIS …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/this-is-horror-awards-2015-the-winners/

The Cutting Room – Darling

Darling follows a lonely young woman who moves into an old, mysterious Manhattan mansion. Hired as caretaker, it’s not long before she discovers the estate’s haunted reputation and troubling past—stories that slowly transform into a backdrop for her twisted and violent descent into madness. Why we’re looking forward to this: There’s something about black and …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/the-cutting-room-darling/

Starting an Online Magazine: Most Overlooked Costs

Gamut Online Fiction Magazine

If you’re a regular listener to the This Is Horror Podcast you’ll know that Richard Thomas is currently twenty-four days into his Kickstarter for new dark fiction magazine, Gamut. But launching an online magazine isn’t as simple as it may sound. In fact there are a multitude of mistakes and overlooked costs. With that said it’s …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/starting-an-online-magazine-most-overlooked-costs/

Look Out For… The Complete Double Dead by Chuck Wendig and Interior Darkness: Selected Stories by Peter Straub

Look Out For… The Complete Double Dead by Chuck Wendig “Double Dead and its sequel are irreverent, gory, and very humorous.” A vampire in zombieland. You wouldn’t like Coburn. People don’t, as a rule. And that’s okay, because he doesn’t like people much either. People are food. Five years ago, Coburn went to sleep–wasn’t exactly …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/look-out-for-the-complete-double-dead-by-chuck-wendig-and-interior-darkness-selected-stories-by-peter-straub/

TIH 081: V. H. Leslie on Skein and Bone, the Novelist as Moral Philosopher and the Writing Process

TIH 081 V. H. Leslie on Skein and Bone, the Novelist as Moral Philosopher and the Writing Process

In this podcast V. H. Leslie talks us through her early career and first professional sale, her debut collection Skein and Bone, her forthcoming debut novel, the novel as moral philosopher, her writing routine, and much more. About V. H. Leslie V. H. Leslie’s first book, Skein and Bone, a collection of strange and supernatural tales, was …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/tih-081-v-h-leslie-on-skein-and-bone-the-novelist-as-moral-philosopher-and-the-writing-process/