Look Out For… Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand “Hand turns her formidable talents as a horror writer to the classic haunted house story” From the award-winning author of Waking The Moon, a short novel of unexpected terror When the young members of a British acid-folk band are compelled by their manager to record their unique …
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TIH 049: In The Year of Omens Written and Narrated by Helen Marshall
In this podcast Helen Marshall reads her short story ‘In The Year of Omens’. About Helen Marshall Helen Marshall is a critically acclaimed Canadian author, editor and medievalist. Her debut collection of short stories, Hair Side, Flesh Side won the 2013 British Fantasy Award for Best Newcomer. Her second collection, Gifts for the One Who Comes …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 July 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: How Horror Games Give Us the Fright We’re Looking For Cannibalism and Other Nightmarish Things: Sleeping Beauty Looking Back at M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening The Essential Guide to Streaming Stephen King …
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News Round-up Week Ending 3 July
FrightFest line-up announced The line-up for this year’s Film4 FrightFest has been announced. The festival has unleashed a massive array of films for the viewing pleasure of its rabid audience. The festival covers horror in all forms from foreign language films to remastered classics and the festival always pays homage to its British heritage with …
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Book Review: Finders Keepers by Stephen King
“He not only hits a home run with this but knocks it clean out of the park.” There’s a good chance if you’re one of the many millions of Stephen King fans around the world that you feel a form of literary addiction, in that you absolutely cannot get enough from Maine’s Master of the …
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The Cutting Room: Creeper
Heather and her friends have some devilish fun on the social website, ConnectMeNet. However, their amusement has come at the expense of a lonely and medicated half-wit, Jerry Tobin. After goading him into humiliating himself on camera in various cruel acts of depravity, they post the clips online for the world to see in a …
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Look Out For… Point Hollow by Rio Youers and The Dulwich Horror & Others by David Hambling
Look Out For… Point Hollow by Rio Youers “Youers’s stories are always immaculately constructed, written with a sure sense of both character and setting.” Point Hollow, NY. A town with secrets. To the tourists that visit each summer, it is quintessential America. They stroll through its picturesque streets and hike its stunning trails. No one …
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Film Review: It Follows (2014)
“Does it deserve all of the praise lavished on it? The simple answer is both yes and no.” After an apparently innocent sexual encounter turns into something altogether more sinister, a young woman named Jay finds that she is being stalked by a relentless being that can assume the form of anyone, and that will …
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Book Review: ClownFellas by Carlton Mellick III
“If Martin Scorsese and Ronald McDonald had a baby, this would be it. A must read whether you are a fan of bizarro or not.” Welcome to Little Bigtop, the notorious clown neighbourhood of New York, where clowns outnumber humans, or vanillas, ten to one. What was once a major tourist attraction is now a …
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