News Round-up Week Ending 12 June

Christopher Lee Dies Aged 93 Horror icon, screen legend, and last of the great gentlemen actors, Sir Christopher Lee passed away aged 93 at 8:30am on Sunday at London’s Chelsea and Westminster Hospital where sources have said he was being treated for respiratory problems and heart failure. Perhaps best known to horror fans for his …

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Book Review: The Scarlet Gospels by Clive Barker

“As a standalone story it has merit certainly, and there are passages contained within that serve as a reminder of Barker’s greatness.” Expectations can be such dangerous beasts, especially so in the case of a new and much-anticipated book from a favourite author, and a much lauded writer at that. Clive Barker’s The Scarlet Gospels …

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The Cutting Room: Zombie Prom

A musical-comedy homage to the musicals and films of the 1950s, Zombie Prom tells the story of a forbidden romance between the rebellious bad boy Jonny and the good girl Toffee. After falling into a nuclear reactor, Jonny returns to his love as a zombie. Why we’re looking forward to this: If the prospect of …

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Tales from The Word Mine: What Do We Tell the Children?

Stories for children have been very much on my mind of late, especially as I’ve been trying to introduce our eldest daughter – Maia, 4 years old – to more complex works of children’s literature. She was very happy to sit through readings of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, probably because she’s already seen the …

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Look Out For… Finders Keepers by Stephen King and A Headful Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

Look Out For… … Finders Keepers by Stephen King “A taut and masterful thriller.” ‘Wake up, genius.’ So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not …

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A Taste of Hannibal Season 3 From Exclusive Cinema Event

London ‘Fannibals’ enjoy a tantalising taste of Season 3 at edible cinema exclusive. “Season Two certainly left us with lots to chew on,” quips Sky Executive Julia Barry as tonight’s honoured guests set about gorging their way through an extravagant feast of quivering cucumber jelly, succulent cuts of beef tartare, candied ‘long pig’ crackling and …

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TIH 047: Paul Tremblay on A Head Full of Ghosts, Classic Horror and The Exorcist

A Head Full of Ghosts Paul Tremblay Novel

In this podcast Paul Tremblay talks about his latest novel A Head Full of Ghosts, classic horror and The Exorcist. About Paul Tremblay Paul Tremblay is the author of A Head Full of Ghosts, The Little Sleep, No Sleep till Wonderland, Swallowing a Donkey’s Eye, and Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn’t Fly (co-written with Stephen …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 June 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: Tanith Lee – A Brief Retrospective Is Jaws the Greatest Horror Movie of All Time? Why So Sequel? The Endless Nightmare of Horror Franchises Why Horror TV Succeeds, And The Difficulty Of …

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News Round-up Week Ending 5 June

the last outpost

FUBAR unleashed Cohesion Press have released the latest collection from Weston Ochse, FUBAR. This collection of war stories brings together Ochse’s war fiction and essays from over the last twenty years. It is the definitive word on Ochse’s military output and a must for fans of the military horror sub-genre. You can grab your copy …

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The Cutting Room: The Belko Experiment

At the beginning of a work day, the American Belko company in South America is mysteriously sealed off and its employees are ordered to kill each other or be killed themselves. This starts an escalation of violence, where we discover the true nature of each and every Belko employee. Why we’re looking forward to this: …

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