Guidelines? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Guidelines

Um, yeah, you do. Confession: I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year. I have nine million irons in the fire right now, in the form of columns to write as well as reviews and my own fiction. Also, Fallout 4 hits this month. And Battlefront. So there’s that. Don’t let my nonparticipation in anyway discourage you …

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Look Out For… The Rim Of Morning by William Sloane and Thinking Horror

Look Out For… The Rim Of Morning by William Sloane “The Rim Of Morning demonstrates Sloane’s skill at building an atmosphere of tension and dread.” In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry …

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Book Review: The Ragthorn by Robert Holdstock and Garry Kilworth

“An absolutely necessary read for anyone with even the slightest interest in the fantastic or the macabre.” This collaboration between two of Britain’s finest fantasy and horror authors, Kilworth and Holdstock, has long been hard to find: now, courtesy of Infinity Plus, it’s available as an ebook. Holdstock’s roots were in science fiction, but he’s …

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Film Review: Video Nasties Night: Ban this Filth! Cube Cinema, Bristol, 16.09.15

“They’re ridiculous and they shouldn’t be as effective as they are. But then again, perhaps that’s why some Video Nasties are still so fascinating to this day” To celebrate the Blu-ray release of Joe D’Amato’s legendary 1980 Nasty-piece, Anthropophagus (also known in some circles as The Savage Island, Zombie 7, and the shockingly, offensively fellatial …

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TIH 067: When Susurrus Stirs, written and narrated by Jeremy Robert Johnson

  In this podcast Jeremy Robert Johnson narrates his short story ‘When Susurrus Stirs’.  About Jeremy Robert Johnson Jeremy Robert Johnson is the author of We Live Inside You, the cult hit Angel Dust Apocalypse, the Stoker Nominated novel Siren Promised (w/Alan M. Clark), and the end-of-the-world freak-out Extinction Journals. His fiction has appeared internationally in numerous anthologies …

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Book Review: Three Moments Of An Explosion: Stories by China Miéville

Three Moments Of An Explosion: Stories by China Miéville

“The stories burrow under your skin, crawl back out again, and leave you playing with the wounds!”   It’s been ten years since China Miéville’s first short fiction collection, Looking For Jake & Other Stories, was published. During the ensuing decade Miéville’s reputation as a novelist has grown from strength-to-strength, gaining him a mantle-load of …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 16 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: Revisiting Different Seasons by Richard Chizmar More than just a Leatherface Unsweet Dreams: The Ghost Stories of EF Benson Ten Horror Podcasts you Should be Listening to Right Now Can’t Look Away: …

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The Cutting Room: Nest

A team of scientists are making the discovery of the century when they lose a colleague in an ancient labyrinth. The group must battle their way through a swarm of deadly, man-eating funnel web spiders and discover the secret behind the insects’ power and intelligence – before it’s too late! Why we’re looking forward to …

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Look Out For… Slade House by David Mitchell and Slaughter Beach by Benedict Jones

Look Out For… Slade House by David Mitchell “Expect Mitchell’s usual linguistic fireworks, multiple narrators and intricate plotting.” Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a …

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TIH 066: Barbie Wilde on Being The Female Cenobite in Hellraiser, The Voices of the Damned and Horror and Erotica

Barbie Wilde Podcast Interview

In this podcast Barbie Wilde talks about her success as the female cenobite in Hellraiser, her novel The Venus Complex, her collection The Voices of the Damned, the relationship between horror and erotica and much more.  About Barbie Wilde As an actress, Barbie Wilde is best known for playing the Female Cenobite in Clive Barker’s classic …

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