Look Out For… Hungry Celluloid by Frank Duffy and Shadow On The Wall by Jonathan Aycliffe

Hungry Celluloid

Look Out For… Hungry Celluloid by Frank Duffy “Hungry Celluloid contains compelling, literate and disturbing pieces by a writer who knows exactly how horror works.” The new collection from Frank Duffy, author of The Signal Block and Other Tales and Unknown Causes brings together thirteen unsettling stories which push through the thin fabric of reality …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 14 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: Wes Craven’s Horror Legacy: The Intelligent Slasher A Demon and a Gentleman: Dr Walpurgis and BBC’s The Vault of Horror Past and Future: Esoteric and Exoteric Philosophy in Weird Fiction Monster Mixtape: …

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Film Four FrightFest 2015 Day 3 – Saturday 29 August 2015

Energy drinks at the ready, it’s time for the horror faithful to catch yet another crop of horror and genre premieres on day three of Film Four FrightFest 2015. On the cards this time around – heavy metal bands takes on rampaging demonic hordes in Deathgasm, Ben Cresciman inventively explores madness with Sun Choke, a dysfunctional …

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News Round-up Week Ending 11 September 2015

Akira Yamaoka Announces Silent Hill Live Performances Akira Yamaoka, the man behind the legendary musical score to Silent Hill has announced that he will be performing the score live throughout tour of the UK this October. Dates include performances in London, Manchester, Southampton, Cardiff and Bristol. Tickets are on sale right now and are available …

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The Cutting Room: Bone Tomahawk

After an outlaw unknowingly leads a band of cannibalistic Troglodytes into the peaceful western town of Bright Hope, the monsters kidnap several settlers, including the wife of a local rancher. Despite his injured leg the rancher joins a small rescue party with the sheriff, his aging deputy and a strong-willed gunslinger. What follows is a …

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TIH 058: John C. Foster on The Rules of Writing, Writer’s Block and Full-Time Writing

John C. Foster

In this podcast John C. Foster talks about the rules of writing, writer’s block and full-time writing.  About John C. Foster John C. Foster was born in Sleepy Hollow, NY, and has been afraid of the dark for as long as he can remember. A writer of thrillers and dark fiction, Foster was raised in the …

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Look Out For… The Streets by Robert Dunbar and Zombie Apocalypse! Acapulcalypse Now by Alison Littlewood

Look Out For… The Streets by Robert Dunbar “Dunbar shows considerable skill in making us care for his broken and fallible characters” Escaping horrors that prowl the back alleys of a nameless city, a group of young people find themselves trapped in a decrepit asylum … where unspeakable evil awaits them. Do the streets offer …

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Film Four FrightFest 2015 Day 2 – Friday 28 August 2015

Day two of Film Four FrightFest 2015 sees the London film festival kicking into full gear, and as usual there is a bumper card of new horror and genre flicks to choose from across the main screens and three discovery screens. Read below to see what we made of The Diabolical, Hellions, AAAAAAAAH!, Jeruzalem and …

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Film Four FrightFest Day 1 – Thursday 27 August 2015

It’s quite amazing just how quickly Film Four FrightFest seems to come around every year. Now in its sixteenth year, the London based film festival is still going from strength to strength, and this year it proved to be bigger than ever, boasting an incredible number of horror and genre premieres, previews and retrospectives from …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 7 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: Stephen King: Can a Novelist Be Too Productive? Why I Love 80s Horror: Part One – VHS Covers Why Wes Craven Mattered to Horror Fans Something Rotten ‘The Strain’: Why FX’s Vampire-Apocalypse …

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