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 “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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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 “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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Look Out For … At Dark, I Become Loathsome by… "With LaRocca's latest, he plunges the depths of depravity and…
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TIH 597: David Moody on Atheists Writing the… In this podcast, David Moody talks about atheists writing the…
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Look Out For … Strange Stones by Edward Lee… "The visceral abominations of Edward Lee and the literary cosmic…