“Heir’s ending is one that sticks firmly in the mind with a brave image of purely human horror, dismay and revulsion.” Director Richard Powell’s 14-minute short film Heir opens on a palpably ominous note. A lone man, Gordon, sits in a darkened room, lit only by the artificial light of his computer monitor. An email …
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We announced public nominations for the fifth annual This Is Horror Awards earlier this week. The response from publishers and readers has been incredible, although one of the absent categories has been missed and mentioned by several readers. The category in question is the Magazine of the Year. Here’s why we dropped it and what …
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Friday the 13th: The Game is a third-person, asymmetrical multiplayer title where one player controls Jason Voorhees while the remaining seven control camp counsellors try to survive the night, all in the semi-open world of Camp Crystal Lake! It’s a classic horror fan’s dream, no shaky cam, no found footage — and you are at …
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“Meloy is a master at developing characters who feel real.” Although The Night Clock is Paul Meloy’s debut novel there is a real sense that his body of short fiction work has been building towards this accomplished novel which is by turn captivating, humorous, devastating, but ultimately uplifting. No prior knowledge of the author’s work …
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I can’t believe this is the fifth annual This Is Horror Awards. That sure has come around quickly and what an awful lot of fun we’ve had these past four years. Here are the This Is Horror Award categories this year. We’ve based them off your feedback and the most popular categories last year. Novel …
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“There’s a more than halfway decent movie here struggling to get out, it’s just buried under too much that lags and drags.” On paper, at least, Pay the Ghost has an impressive pedigree: in addition to the high quality source material in the shape of the excellent novella by Tim Lebbon, it’s directed by the …
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In this podcast Alison Littlewood talks about A Cold Silence, learning the writing craft and the horror genre. About Alison Littlewood Alison Littlewood was raised in Penistone, South Yorkshire, and went on to attend the University of Northumbria at Newcastle (now Northumbria University). Originally she planned to study graphic design, but “missed the words too much” and …
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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 The Running Man by Richard Chizmar Ramsey Campbell’s ‘Thirteen Novels on the Edge of Horror’ Winding Up the Dark Staircase: A Brief Survey of Haunted Houses On The Babadook, It Follows, …
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For horror fans up in the north of England, and arguably across the country Grimmfest is an unmissable line-up of some of the best upcoming and ‘ones to watch’ of the genre. This years event once again saw some of films biggest and best showcase of horror films from across the globe, including Manchester film …
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Wolf Creek, a six-part drama series, is a psychological thriller set in the world that fans of the films will recognise – but this time things are different. At first the pattern is familiar: Mick Taylor targets an American tourist family to terrorise and destroy. But the tables are turned when 19-year-old Eve survives the …
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