News Round-up Week Ending 9 May

White Settlers

John Carpenter season in Manchester Grimm Up North have announced tickets are available for their John Carpenter season which begins on 23 May with They Live. The other films featured in the season will be Escape from New York on 5 June, Big Trouble in Little China on 26 June and The Thing on 17 …

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Book Review: Cold Turkey by Carole Johnstone

“Nightmarishly disturbing!” Carole Johnstone’s Cold Turkey is the third in a series of beautifully presented novellas published by TTA Press of Black Static, Interzone and Crimewave fame. There’s little doubting Johnstone’s credentials as an author – as well as writing for the UK’s premier literary horror magazine, her work has been featured in Ellen Datlow’s …

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TIH 017: Stephen Graham Jones on What You Can and Can’t Learn From Creative Writing, Slasher Movies and Self-Doubt

Stephen Graham Jones

In this podcast we interview the award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones. We talk about his latest novel Not For Nothing, his This Is Horror chapbook The Elvis Room, Richard Thomas’ forthcoming anthology The New Black, zombies, the slasher genre and much more. Topics [00:50] Stephen Graham Jones introduction and early career [03:50] What you can …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 5 May 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: You’re Killing Me: The Driving Factor Behind 1970s Horror Genre Gut-Punches: The Death of Laurie Strode Rubber, Road, Brains and Souls: 5 Killer Car Flicks That Will Never Be Forgotten Why Horror …

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News Round-up Week Ending 2 May

Silent Hill

Horror 101 is unleashed. Crystal Lake Publishing have released their latest book, a how-to guide about breaking into the horror writing industry. Horror 101: The Way Forward covers every conceivable angle of the genre and features essays from genre gurus such as Gary McMahon, Ramsey Campbell and Jack Ketchum. The book is available now from the …

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Bated Breath

Salem TV Series

I’ve been lingering of late, in hopes of bringing this column my thoughts on something new. The alternative was to go off on some shows I’m profoundly late to the party on. Thankfully, fortune shone on me in the form of two new series premieres. I was on Hulu the other night, looking for something …

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Less Is Never More – More or Less

Stuck On You by Jasper Bark

  About a decade and a half ago Keith Tyson, a conceptual artist and childhood friend of mine (who would later go on to win the Turner Prize), invited me to one of his shows. It was in a boutique gallery in a trendy part of West London and the place was filled with just …

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Interview: Andre Duza, April 2014

Andre Duza

We recently caught up with Andre Duza, the author of Necro Sex Machines and Jesus Freaks. Duza’s work has been published in many magazines, including Undead and Chainsaw Magazine. At the beginning of this interview, Andre speaks bravely and honestly of a traumatic childhood experience, which was the catalyst to writing from a very young …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 28 April 2014

Welcome to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? You want the best the web has to offer? You want a toilet made out of solid gold? As Meat Loaf once sang, two out of three ain’t bad. This week: Horror: The Ugly Duckling of Cinema Up to snuff: Why ‘Found Footage’ is Good …

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News Round-up Week Ending 25 April

Rosemary

NBC drops hints about Rosemary’s Baby NBC have released further pictures to promote their new 4 hour adaptation of Ira Levin’s novel Rosemary’s Baby. The cast will feature Star Trek star Zoe Saldana, Patrick J. Adams and Harry Potter bad guy Jason Isaacs. The show will premiere on NBC on 11 May in the States. …

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