News Round-up Week Ending 10 October

Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks Returns 25 years on, David Lynch has announced that Twin Peaks is returning to warp our minds. The series will be aired on ShowTime in 2016 and will be written and produced by Lynch and Mark Frost. As all of the details reveal themselves, This Is Horror will bring them to you. SeaCon1 …

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The Cutting Room: Horns and See No Evil 2

Horns Ignatius “Ig” Perrish wakes up after a heavy night on the booze to discover that his girlfriend has been raped and murdered, and that he is the prime suspect. Shortly afterwards he suddenly sprouts the titular horns and discovers that he has paranormal powers that he uses to try and find the real killer. Why …

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Film Review: Wolf Creek 2 (2014)

“A worthy sequel that doesn’t merely rehash the first film but instead takes the franchise into new territory in terms of character and style.” It’s been eight years since writer and director Greg McClean first took us to Wolf Creek, but the wait has been worthwhile as both McClean and star John Jarratt have delivered …

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Meet The Writer Interview: Norman Dixon

Norman Dixon is a classically trained Cartoonist with a BA in Ilustration/Cartooning from the School of Visual Arts. He is an artist, author and father of two amazing little girls.  What first attracted you to horror writing? The obvious answer here is Stephen King’s IT, but more than that I think it was also David …

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Look Out For… Stuck On You & Other Prime Cuts by Jasper Bark and The Madness of Cthulhu

Look Out For… Stuck On You & Other Prime Cuts by Jasper Bark “Behind the gleeful mayhem is the work of an old school horror writer.” A word of caution gentle reader, these tales will take you places you’ve never been before and may never dare revisit. They’ll whisper truths so twisted you can only face …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 6 October 2014

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: ‘It’s Alive! It’s Alive!’ Why Hollywood Keeps Trying To Spark Life Into Frankenfilms Mind Meld: Horrified by Horror – The Books, Films and Shows That Messed Us Up …

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News Round-up Week Ending 3 October

Scarlet Gospels

The Scarlet Gospels St Martin’s Press are delighted to announce the publication date of Clive Barker’s new novel The Scarlet Gospels. The American Book Publishers will be releasing the novel on 19 May 2015 in both hardback, and audio CD. The plot takes the traditional form of good versus evil in which supernatural detective, Harry …

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The Cutting Room: The Walking Dead (Season Five)

This week The Cutting Room eyes up a tasty treat coming to your television screens in a couple of weeks. The Walking Dead (Season Five) Former police officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) continues to lead his band of survivors through the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse. At the end of the previous season they had …

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Meet The Writer Interview: SP Durnin

SP Durnin

SP Durnin enjoys running, martial arts and practises parkour in his spare time. He loves sci-fi/horror/fantasy novels, and is utterly captivated with the idea of hungry, mobile, man-eating corpses. If a book is about zombies or some kind of apocalypse? Yeah, he’s most likely going to give it a read. What first attracted you to horror writing? …

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Look Out For… The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley and The Penguin Book Of Witches

Look Out For … The Loney by Andrew Michael Hurley “A slow-burn horror story about childhood and the past, religious faith and miracles.” The Loney is a superb British horror novel in the tradition of The Wicker Man. Exploring issues of faith and the survival of older beliefs, Andrew Michael Hurley’s beautifully atmospheric and moving …

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