Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick “ A mixture of old school episodic storytelling and modern techniques reminiscent of found-footage films.” “There’s a place, out in North Wales, where things have happened. Bad things, strange things. Dark things. At the heart of it there’s a mountain, and they call it Mynydd Du: Black …
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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: A Brief History of Canadian Horror on Film The Art-Horror Film: Genius or Pretentious? 8-Bit Terror: Nintendo’s Horror Games That Inspired a Thriving Subgenre Love Horror’s Six Greatest Givers of Gore What …
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FrightFest tickets available soon FrightFest tickets go on sale on Saturday 28 June. The tickets will be available in person from 10am at the Vue West End Cinema in Leicester Square, London. Tickets will also be available online and over the phone from noon onward for those that can’t make it in person. For full details …
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This month, in the interest of doing something a bit different, I thought I’d look at a narrative poem instead of a short story. ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ was written by John Keats in 1819 and focuses on my favourite gothic staple, the femme fatale. You can read it here. It’s only twelve stanzas …
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Composer Kevin Riepl will be best known to film fans as the man behind the excellent music to movies such as The Aggression Scale and Silent Night (both directed by Stephen C Miller) and Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero (due out next month). He’s also an extremely successful composer of video game scores, and can …
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Look Out For… The Exiled by William Meikle “Mixes gritty modern crime fiction with the fey and supernatural!” When several young girls are abducted from various locations in Edinburgh, Detective John Granger and his brother Alan, a reporter, investigate the cases from different directions. The abductor is cunning, always one step ahead, and the only clue …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror. After seven sleepless nights and more than two trillion articles read, the results are in. Here are five of the best horror articles from the past week: The Problem With the Modern Slasher Six Horror Magazines You Should Be Reading Examining Innovation in the Found Footage Genre Scary Stories: Are …
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In this podcast we talk to the award-winning author Ray Cluley about his forthcoming This Is Horror release, Water For Drowning, the award-winning ‘Shark! Shark!’, the short story form, mermaids and much more. Topics [00:46] Ray Cluley biography [03:27] Water For Drowning [06:00] Dan asks the important Mermaid questions [10:45] Short stories [16:40] Different markets and genres …
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Spectral Press channels the past Inspired by the Pan and Fontana books of horror and ghost stories, Spectral Press have announced their own version The Spectral Press Book of Horror Stories. This will be the first installment in an annual series. The book will be edited by Mark Morris and will feature stories from Conrad Williams, …
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“King’s prose is littered with colourful references and character quirks that can make even the most mundane of scenes come alive.” Mr Mercedes is the latest book from Stephen King. Following in the footsteps of his recent novel Joyland, it veers away from the traditional perception of King’s work to take on hardboiled crime. It begins …
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This Is Horror Awards 2024: Public Nominations and… Hey, friends. Michael David Wilson, founder of This Is Horror,…
TIH 596: David Moody on Shadowlocked, Beta Reader… In this podcast, David Moody talks about Shadowlocked, beta reader…
Look Out For … Strange Stones by Edward Lee… "The visceral abominations of Edward Lee and the literary cosmic…
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