Alan Moore: One of the most influential comic book writers of any generation. Writer of Watchmen, Batman: The Killing Joke, The Saga of Swamp Thing, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, From Hell, and many, many more epic comic series and graphic novels. The creator of John Constantine, that Hellblazing cat conjuring dirty deeds done dirt …
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British Fantasy Award nominees announced The nominees for the 2015 British Fantasy Awards have been announced. The shortlists have been whittled down by the juries with some fantastic books and authors amongst them. Special congratulations go to Rich Hawkins and Laura Mauro for their maiden nominations along with Ray Cluley for his nomination for Water …
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Bully prison warden Bill Boss (Dieter Laser), leading a big state prison in the US of A, has a lot of problems; his prison statistically has the highest amount of prison riots, medical costs and staff turnover in the country. But foremost he is unable to get the respect he thinks he deserves from his …
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Look Out For… Do You Like To Look At Monsters? by Scott Nicolay “Nicolay’s stories build an atmosphere both of menace and ambiguity.” The World Fantasy Award-nominated story by Scott Nicolay, previously only available as a limited-edition chapbook, Do You Like to Look at Monsters? showcases one of the most exciting and unusual new voices …
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In this podcast Simon Strantzas reads his short story ‘By Invisible Hands’. About Simon Strantzas Simon Strantzas is the author of Burnt Black Suns (Hippocampus Press, 2014), Nightingale Songs (Dark Regions Press, 2011), Cold to the Touch (Tartarus Press, 2009), and Beneath the Surface (Humdrumming, 2008), as well as the editor of Aickman’s Heirs (Undertow Publications, 2015), Shadows …
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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: Where to Start with the Works of Peter Straub Revisiting Danse Macabre by Richard Chizmar The State of Horror Video Games in 2015 HP Lovecraft and HR Giger: How Their Dreams Became …
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R.I.P. Tom Piccirilli It is with great sadness that This Is Horror reports the passing of horror author Tom Piccirilli. The multiple Stoker award winning novelist, short story writer and poet passed away earlier this week at the age of just fifty years old. The thoughts of the staff at This Is Horror are with …
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The world knows of the legacy of child killer Freddy Krueger thanks to Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and the sequels of varying quality, but every story has a beginning and now we’re being taken back to the time of the original crimes to see what turned Frederick Charles Kruger into the Springwood …
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You remember those kids at school, who were into whatever band you were into before you, before anyone in fact? Who would roll their eyes at you when you mentioned the band, as if the simple fact of you being into them meant they weren’t worth being into anymore, because you were so behind the …
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Look Out For… The Bureau Of Them by Cate Gardner “You can never tell what is going to happen in a Cate Gardner story.” You’re not the first to talk to your dead here, the vagrant said. The living always chase after their dead until they come upon their own. Formed from shadow and dust, …
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