Coming soon: The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud

The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud

We’re delighted to announce that later this year we’ll be publishing Nathan Ballingrud’s novella, The Visible Filth. This will be the final book in this year’s chapbook series. To secure a copy of The Visible Filth please take out an annual subscription to the This Is Horror chapbook series. The This Is Horror chapbook series officially ends with The …

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TIH 019: Looking back at Hannibal Season Two with Booked

In this podcast we sit down with Robb Olson and Livius Nedin from the Booked Podcast and discuss Hannibal Season Two. If you head over to the This Is Horror website you’ll also see a slideshow of Mads Mikkelsen’s suits in Hannibal. Topics [02:10] Impressions of Season two of Hannibal [08:00] Hannibal the fighter [11:25] The …

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Look Out For… Black Mountain by Simon Bestwick and Ceremony Of Flies by Kate Jonez

Black Mountain 7

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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5 Must Read Horror Articles 30 June 2014

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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News Round-up Week Ending 27 June

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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Less is More: ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ by John Keats

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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Behind The Sound Interview: Kevin Riepl

Cabin Fever Soundtrack Cover

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 and Touched by Joanna Briscoe

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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5 Must Read Horror Articles 23 June 2014

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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TIH 018: Ray Cluley on Water For Drowning, What Makes A Good Short Story and The Joy Of Writing

Water for Drowning by Ray Cluley

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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