Starting today, Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley is just 99p in the Amazon UK store. Buy a copy here. But don’t delay, this offer runs out at 8:00am on 10 October 2015. Not only does Water For Drowning include the British Fantasy award-winner ‘Shark! Shark! as a bonus story but Water For Drowning has been nominated for a British Fantasy …
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TIH 061: Ellen Datlow on The Best Horror of the Year, The Golden Age of Horror and Good vs. Great Stories
In this podcast Ellen Datlow talks about the golden age of horror, the best horror of the year and much more. About Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor of Event Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short …
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News Round-up Week Ending 2 October
FrightFest Halloween event announced The organisers of FrightFest have announced details of their Halloween event at the Prince Charles Cinema in London. The event will feature guest appearances from James Purefoy and Olga Kurylenko and UK and world premières of numerous films including The Vatican Tapes, The Unspoken and Momentum. For tickets, check out the cinema’s website. Joe …
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The Cutting Room: The Witch
William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with their five children in the remote wilderness of 1630s New England. When their newborn son suddenly disappears and their crops fail, the family begin to turn on each other and soon find themselves being torn apart by a malevolent force of black magic. Why we’re looking …
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Look Out For… GodBomb! by Kit Power and Ghostly: A Collection Of Ghost Stories
Look Out For… GodBomb! by Kit Power “An original, twisting, fast-paced story which will keep readers guessing how it will all end.” Somebody wants answers. North Devon, England. 1995. A born-again revival meeting in a public building. The usual mix of the faithful, the curious, and the desperate. And one other–an atheist suicide bomber. He’s angry. He …
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Book Review: Peripheral Visions: The Collected Ghost Stories by Robert Hood
“Peripheral Visions explores twisted realities, life after death, and the phantoms of troubled minds.” Peripheral Visions is a vast, 44-strong collection of the collected ghost stories to date of Australian author Robert Hood. Hood may not be a household name amongst British horror fans, but the quality of the stories in this book (available as a …
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Top 5 of FrightFest 2015 – No. 1: Sun Choke
This Is Horror head of film and television Jason Hicks’ rundown of his personal top five films shown at Film Four Frightfest 2015 comes to a close as he reviews his favourite film of the festival — the visually beautiful psychological drama Sun Choke. “Sun Choke is a tense and sometimes uncomfortable piece of hallucinatory …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 28 September 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: Here’s Where to Start with the Scary Specter of TV Horror Series What Scares Cult Horror Writer Thomas Ligotti? The Great Stephen King Birthday Cinema Celebration! Psychology of TV Violence: A Look …
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Top 5 of FrightFest 2015 – No. 2: Deathgasm
This Is Horror head of film and television Jason Hicks continues to review his personal top five films shown at Film Four Frightfest 2015. In at number two is gore-soaked New Zealand heavy metal comedy-horror Deathgasm. “The sight of a large rubber dildo being smashed into the face of one of the demonically possessed is …
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TIH 060: Ellen Datlow on Editing Misconceptions, Reading and Themed Anthologies
In this podcast Ellen Datlow talks about editing misconceptions, reading and themed anthologies. About Ellen Datlow Ellen Datlow has been editing science fiction, fantasy, and horror short fiction for over thirty years as fiction editor of OMNI Magazine and editor ofEvent Horizon and SCIFICTION. She currently acquires short fiction for Tor.com. In addition, she has …
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