News Round-up Week Ending 27 November

Here’s a selection of some of the news that caught our eye this week… John Carpenter To Play Live UK Shows During Halloween 2016 Director and musician John Carpenter has announced that he is set to bring his new live music show to the UK during Halloween 2016. The horror master has been named to …

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This Is Horror Deals: Black Friday–Cyber Monday

To coincide with Black Friday and Cyber Monday we’re offering some special deals from Friday 27 November–Monday 30 November. Firstly, we have the newest of our novellas, The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud reduced from £6.99 to just £4.99. Secondly, you can pick up a chapbook bundle containing Joe & Me, Thin Men With Yellow Faces, The Fox and Chalk for just £9.99 …

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The Cutting Room: Dead Of Summer

Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counsellors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns …

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Look Out For… The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King and Night Music: Nocturnes 2 by John Connolly

Look Out For… The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King “The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams shows, yet again, why there’s no one quite like King” The No. 1 bestselling writer has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of novellas and short story fiction since his first collection Night Shift was published. He …

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TIH 068: T.E. Grau on The Nameless Dark, Dark Fiction and Technology

T E Grau This Is Horror Podcast

In this podcast T.E. Grau talks about The Nameless Dark, screenwriting, technology, dark fiction and much more.  About T.E. Grau T.E. Grau is an author of dark fiction whose work has been featured in dozens of anthologies, magazines, literary journals, and audio platforms. The Nameless Dark, his first collection of short fiction, was released in …

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Between The Cold War and the Third

I was born in 1974; as a result, I was one of the last generation to grow up under a very particular fear: the fear of World War Three. It was the Cold War. The US and the Soviet Union each wielded enough nuclear weapons to destroy all life on Earth many times over. In …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 November 2015

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: The Short-Lived Comic Book Publisher That Helped Give Birth to the Zombie Craze Back to Derry: An Oral History of ‘Stephen King’s It’ Revisiting Christine by Richard Chizmar Primer: The Work of …

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NaNoWriMo: No No Wri Mo

National Novel Writing Month is upon us once more, and I have thoughts on that. Firstly, there’s the knee-jerk, irritable me response: “Oh good, yet more word count boasting on Twitter.” You know the sort of thing – This morning I wrote 2000 words, went for a run and then wrote 2000 more. #amwriting. And …

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The Cutting Room: Fear The Walking Dead

Living in the same universe as The Walking Dead, Fear the Walking Dead is a gritty drama that explores the onset of the undead apocalypse through the lens of a fractured family. Set in Los Angeles, a city where people come to escape, shield secrets, and bury their pasts, a mysterious outbreak threatens to disrupt …

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Book Review: Get in Troubles: Stories by Kelly Link

“A collection of stories on the loose theme of jeopardy; of risk and error and consequence on the part of the characters. But it is more than that.” During an interview for Geeks Guide To The Galaxy podcast, Kelly Link reveals how she and friends like to play a little game when they’re watching TV. …

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