Look Out For… Lost Girl by Adam Nevill & Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume 2

Look Out For… Lost Girl by Adam Nevill “Lost Girl combines the apocalyptic vision of The Road with Nevill’s own brand of bleak terror.” How far will he go to save his daughter? How far will he go to get revenge? It’s 2053 and runaway climate change has brought civilization to the brink of collapse. …

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Book Review: There’s a Bluebird in my Heart by Gary McMahon

“If Bukowski was ‘a laureate of American lowlife’, then it would be fair to cast McMahon as a poet of the British soul.” The latest release from miserablist British author Gary McMahon is curiously entitled There’s a Bluebird in my Heart from White Noise Press. The title comes from the Charles Bukowski poem ‘Bluebird’ and …

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TIH 064: Alison Littlewood on A Cold Season, Jo Fletcher Books and Zombie Apocalypse

Alison Littlewood Podcast

In this podcast Alison Littlewood talks about A Cold Season, Jo Fletcher Books and Zombie Apocalypse.  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 switched to …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 26 October 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: Apocalypse Right Now: Preoccupations of the End Game Feeding the Beast: Horror Vinyl Finds its Cult In Defense of Michael Mann’s The Keep The Lovecraftian Stories of Stephen King Can Budget-Slasher Jason …

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News Round-up Week Ending 23 October

Moody & Simmons

Infected Books Halloween Event David Moody (author of Hater) and Wayne Simmons (Plastic Jesus)are hosting a Halloween event at Waterstones New Street in Birmingham on Friday 30 October. Reprising their successful “Never Trust A Man With Hair” tour, the pair will sign books and answer questions from the audience. The event runs from 7pm until …

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Film Review: V/H/S: Viral (2014)

“In spite of its defects, V/H/S: Viral is still an enjoyable way to spend an hour and a half.” Film fans, and cineastes of all stripes, have a theory about trilogies. In short, according to this theory, the first movie is iconic, the second is by far the best and the third falls far short …

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The Cutting Room. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

Picking up immediately after the events in Resident Evil: Retribution, Final Chapter finds humanity on its last legs and Alice (Jovovich) must return to Raccoon City, where the Umbrella Corporation is preparing for a final strike against the survivors of the apocalypse. In a race against time Alice will join forces with old friends, and …

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Tattered Tomes: The Silver Limbic Highway – Kathe Koja’s Bad Brains, Revisited

If you’re a fan of horror fiction, surely you know the work of Kathe Koja. I first heard of her work reading a horror lit zine in the early 90s in a promo article touting her soon to be released novel The Cipher. The local strip mall installed a Hastings and they had the best …

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Look Out For… Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard and Thirteen Days by Sunset Beach by Ramsey Campbell

Look Out For… Carter & Lovecraft by Jonathan L. Howard “This is no normal mythos rip off, but a sleek and stylish novel full of clever dialogue and original twists.” Daniel Carter used to be a homicide detective, but his last case–the hunt for a serial killer–went wrong in strange ways and soured the job …

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Meet the Writer Interview: Shaun Meeks

Shaun Meeks lives in Toronto, Ontario with his partner, model and Burlesque performer, Mina LaFleur. Together they own and operate their company L’Atelier de LaFleur. Shaun has been writing for many years now and is a member of the Horror Writers Association. He is the author of Shutdown and the novelette, Down on the Farm. …

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