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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News Round-up Week Ending 26 June
Hannibal Cancelled Bad news for “Fannibals” and horror connoisseurs everywhere, NBC has this week pulled the plug on Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal. The third series, which is currently airing to rave reviews but minimal audiences, will be the last that the network produces. However, fear not, the internet is rife with speculation that one of the …
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Meet the Writer Interview: Matt Micheli
Matt Micheli is a writer from Austin, TX, Wild Card Winner of the 2012 Halloween Book Festival. He has several fiction and non-fiction pieces featured in various literary magazines and is a multi-contributor to ManArchy Magazine, Revolt Daily, and Paragraph Line. He is a loving husband and father by night. What first attracted you to …
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Tattered Tomes: And the Circus Comes to Town – Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes
My relationship with Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes began with another book. Already familiar with Bradbury’s work after reading The Martian Chronicles and a few of his many collections of short stories, it was reading Stephen King’s Danse Macabre that led me back to the writer that started it all for me. The …
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Look Out For… Devil’s Breath by Greg F. Gifune and Sisters Of The Revolution
Look Out For… Devil’s Breath by Greg F. Gifune “Combines a fast-paced, high-stakes plot with a graceful and even darkly poetic style.” In a dying coastal town near Cape Cod, Stanley Falk lives a quiet and unassuming life as a dishwasher. A shell of what and who he once was, Stanley is a man with …
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Meet the Artist Interview: Richard Guy
Richard guy is a tattoo artist, specialising in black and grey work. You can find him on Instagram and Twitter as Richard Artist Guy. Talk us through your first tattoo and what inspired it? For my first tattoo, I had my initials across my stomach with stars between. The font was big, old English font …
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Book Review: Disintegration by Richard Thomas
“If this first installment is any indication about the quality of the series, then we feel it’s safe to say Thomas has a winner here.” Disintegration, by Richard Thomas (Transubstantiate, Staring Into The Abyss), asks us how far are we willing to go once we’ve lost everything that’s ever mattered in life. Those familiar with …
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