News Round-up Week Ending 23 May

The Strain

13 Sins heads to DVD 13 Sins is the latest film from the director of The Last Exorcism Jason Blum, and stars Sons of Anarchy alumni Ron Perlman. The plot centres on a young couple, hard up and with a baby on the way. They are offered a chance to win $6 million to star …

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Behind The Sound Interview: Matthew Llewellyn

What was the first soundtrack or composition that you listened to and how did it affect you? It’s hard to say because I’ve been listening to music for my entire life. My mom always likes to tell stories about playing Mozart in my room when I was a baby, haha. I think the first time …

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Look Out For… Reaping The Dark by Gary McMahon and The Three by Sarah Lotz  

Reaping The Dark by Gary McMahon “What would happen if James Sallis wrote a Dennis Wheatley story?”  A streetwise getaway driver… A drug raid that ends in bloodshed… A violent criminal hell-bent on revenge… A secret order of occultists… And something summoned from the darkest depths of nightmare. Who will survive this long, dark night, …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 19 May 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where you will find upwards of four (five, to be exact) great horror articles on a weekly basis. This week: The Problem With Horror Musicals is Everything is Louder Than Everything Else Zombie Zeitgeist: The Influences and Culture of Zombie Movies Sequels and Remakes: Return of the Living Dead HR …

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News Round-up Week Ending 16 May

Walking Dead

Trailer emerges for V/H/S Viral The trailer for the third film in the V/H/S series has been released for your viewing pleasure. After ditching the video tape premise, the film will feature protagonists on the hunt for the next viral internet phenomenon. There is no release date for the film as yet. This Is Horror …

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Pre-order the next This Is Horror chapbook: Water For Drowning by Ray Cluley

Water for Drowning by Ray Cluley

After the sellout success of The Elvis Room by Stephen Graham Jones we’re delighted to announce the seventh chapbook in the This Is Horror series: Water For Drowning by the award-winning Ray Cluley. Once again the man responsible for the sensational cover art is Pye Parr. Ray has had a vast amount of critically acclaimed stories in magazines and anthologies …

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Book Review: Searchers After Horror Edited by ST Joshi

“Excellent new anthology of consistently superb modern weird tales!” It’s always a pleasure to see a new anthology of weird fiction from Fedogan and Bremer, and doubly so when it has been put together by S T Joshi, an editor with an unparalleled track record within the genre. Searchers After Horror contains twenty one strange …

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RIP HR Giger (1940–2014)

Back in the heady days of my youth, the one thing I was determined to be was an artist. I loved drawing and painting (mostly the former), but the idea of actually doing those things for a living was nothing more than a nebulous concept in my head, something which was more of an unconcretised …

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Book Review: The Unquiet House by Alison Littlewood

“Littlewood has the ability to make you care for characters within only a handful of pages!” The Unquiet House is Alison Littlewood’s third novel. It is also her most complex, with a multi-stranded narrative covering three distinct time periods with several brave choices which may mean it will be her most divisive and discussed story …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 12 May 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we collect the week’s best horror articles in the hope that some of you can’t be bothered to search the internet for yourselves. This week: AICN Comics: Remembers EC Horror co-creator Al Feldstein If TV Horror is Having a Moment, Why is Hannibal Floundering? When Nature Attacks! Pulp Horror …

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