A weird year ahead for Strantzas Simon Strantzas, author of the collection Burnt Black Suns and previous Year’s Best Weird Fiction contributor has been named as the guest editor for the third volume of the best-selling end of year series. The collection will be published in 2016 and will co-edited by long standing series editor …
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Alien 5 Toothy, acid blooded xenomorph terrorises various citizens of the galaxy, and quite possibly an old nemesis. Why we’re looking forward to this: After the somewhat lackluster Alien Resurrection and the unforgettable duo of Alien vs Predator films (we’ve tried, believe us!), you’d have thought that the world would have been done with the …
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“Beyond a joke!” There is no greater sin in storytelling than “it was all a dream”. One might be screaming “SPOILERS!” at this review right now, but there’s a get out technicality here. The reason “it was all a dream” is such a sin is because it entirely nullifies the story that preceded it. And …
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Look Out For… Probably Monsters by Ray Cluley “There’s no ‘probably’ about it: here be monsters.” From British Fantasy Award-winning author Ray Cluley comes Probably Monsters – a collection of dark, weird, literary horror stories. Sometimes the monsters are bloodsucking fiends with fleshy wings. Sometimes they’re shambling dead things that won’t rest, or simply creatures …
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It may surprise some of you to know that award-winning writer Conrad Williams has a penchant for photographing lost gloves. He even has a website dedicated to them (oneglove.wordpress.com) a kind of repository for the “partnerless”, for the “severed shadows” that are left behind on park benches, hidden beneath fallen leaves or swept into gutters. …
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In this podcast This Is Horror present an audio recording of the short story ‘To Watch Is Madness’, written and narrated by Bob Pastorella. About Bob Pastorella Bob Pastorella lives in Southeast Texas. He’s the author of ‘To Watch Is Madness’, and has been featured in The Booked. Anthology, Warmed & Bound: A Velvet Anthology, and In …
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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: Uncanny: a Brief History of a Disturbed Word The Dreadful Ten: Camilla’s Top Ten Forgotten Australian Horrors It Follows Just Revolutionised The Slasher Movie Alien 5 is hatching, but what can we …
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Black Static – Issue 45 TTA Press have released the details of issue 45 of their fantastic horror fiction magazine, Black Static. Issue 45 will be released in early March and will contain fiction from Steve Rasnic Tem, S.P. Miskowski and Cate Gardner among others. The issue will also feature Stephen Volk’s and Lynda E. …
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Leatherface The film which you are about to read about is the account of a young man who grew up to be a chainsaw wielding, cannibalistic maniac who was responsible for one of the most bizarre crimes in the annals of American history. Why we’re looking forward to this: We’ve got to be honest from …
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Look Out For… Black Star, Black Sun by Rich Hawkins “Black Star, Black Sun looks set to confirm Hawkin’s position as one of the most promising new horror authors around.” Ben Ottway has returned to his family home in Marchwood; tired, broken, and grieving over the disappearance of his wife. This should be a time …
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