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
“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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Film Review: Heir (2015)
“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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This Is Horror Awards: Fiction Magazine of the Year
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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The Cutting Room – Friday the 13th: The Game
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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Book Review: The Night Clock by Paul Meloy
“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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