News Round-up Week Ending 10 April

True Detective

True Detective Season 2 trailer emerges The trailer for the highly anticipated second season of True Detective has been released. Feast your eyes on the clip below and prepare yourself for 21 June when it hits our screens again. Sinister sequel haunts viewers The sequel to the 2012 box-office hit Sinister will be released on 21 …

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The Cutting Room: Shed of the Dead

Shed of the Dead A group of folk find themselves in the middle of an urban zombie apocalypse, and come together in the titular shed for a spot of horror comedy. Why we’re looking forward to this: Okay, the synopsis may not sound like the most exciting thing that you’ve read all day, and the …

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Look Out For… The Silence by Tim Lebbon and Dark Detectives

Look Out For… The Silence by Tim Lebbon “The creatures in The Silence are bound to fascinate and terrify in equal measure.”  In the darkness of a underground cave system, blind creatures hunt by sound. Then there is light, there are voices, and they feed… Swarming from their prison, the creatures thrive and destroy. To …

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TIH 038: Andrew Pyper on Being A New York Times Bestseller, The Damned and Researching Sociopaths

Andrew Pyper

In this podcast Andrew Pyper talks about his success as a New York Times Bestselling Author, his brand new novel The Damned, researching sociopaths, and much more.  About Andrew Pyper Born in Stratford, Ontario, Andrew Pyper is the author of seven novels, including most recently The Damned and The Demonologist (a #1 National Bestseller in Canada and winner …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 April 2015

Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: Evil Eighties: The Face That Must Die by Ramsey Campbell Strange Tales: An Appreciation of Rick Baker Seeing isn’t Always Believing: Why Horror Podcasts are Going Viral Gene …

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News Round-up Week Ending 3 April

James Herbert

James Herbert Award picks first winner On Wednesday 1 April, Nick Cutter – pseudonym of the author Craig Davidson, scooped the first annual James Herbert Award for his novel, The Troop. Cutter’s novel won through a strong field including Bird Box by Josh Malerman, M.R. Carey’s The Girl With All The Gifts and Kim Newman’s …

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Book Review: Monolith by Shaun Hutson

“An amalgamation of horror and police-procedural, with a little Jewish mythology tossed in for good measure, there is much fun to be had here.” Shaun Hutson returns with his first original novel in more than five years after penning a trio of modern Hammer novelisations (Twins of Evil, X the Unknown, The Revenge of Frankenstein). …

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Meet The Writer Interview: Glenn Rolfe

  Glenn Rolfe is an author from the haunted woods of New England. He studied Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University and continues his education in the world of horror by devouring the novels of Stephen King and Richard Laymon. He and his wife Meghan have three children: Ruby, Ramona, and Axl. He is …

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Terror Tots: Bloody Birthday

On this installment of Terror Tots – the series in which we take a look at some of filmdom’s most obscure and disturbing killer kids – we’re opening the case for Ed Hunt’s 1981 shocker Bloody Birthday. In 1970, three children are simultaneously born to different mothers, under the ominous shade of a solar eclipse. Fast forward …

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Look Out For… Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones and Strange Tales V

Look Out For… Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones “A collection of interlinked short stories set in the mysterious town of Longcroft, these are strange and compelling tales.” Biblia Longcrofta by Simon Marshall-Jones, publisher and editor at award-nominated Spectral Press, is a series of connected short fiction stories, semi-autobiographical in nature, set in the imaginary town …

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