This is the season that fans of George R. R. Martin’s books have been anticipating since the series started, and with no little trepidation. This is the point in the saga where everything changes, and nothing will ever be the same. Rest assured that show runners David Benioff and D B Weiss have been building …
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Meet The Writer Interview: David Oppegaard
David Oppegaard is the author of the Bram Stoker-nominated The Suicide Collectors (St. Martin’s Press), Wormwood, Nevada (St. Martin’s Press) and The Ragged Mountains (eBook). David’s work is a blend of science fiction, literary fiction, horror, and dark fantasy. You can visit his website at davidoppegaard.com What first attracted you to horror writing? When I was little …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 24 March 2014
It’s that time again, folks! We’ve been scouring for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week on Must Read Horror: A Thing That Lives on Tears: Goodness and Clarice Starling The Top 10 Carnival Horror Movies Visions of Horror: Jack Kirby The Ten Best Hammer Horror Films A Travel Guide to …
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Australia’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: South Australia – Grapevines and Ghosties
South Australia is renowned for its wines and churches, but a long history is reflected in all the hauntings that are reported around the capital, Adelaide, alone. Founded in 1836, Adelaide has the oldest record of an official city council in Australia (1840). It was originally planned to be the first settlement in the entire …
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News Round-up Week Ending March 21
The M Word Horror publishers Big Pulp are releasing a brand new bi-annual magazine this May which they have lovingly dubbed M which stands for Murder and the Macabre. It is a publication of horror fiction and covers everything grim, gruesome and violent. From horror fiction to crime and even some dark poetry. Print versions …
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FrightFest Glasgow 2014 (Part Two)
SATURDAY Video Nasties: Draconian Days Saturday morning started with Video Nasties: Draconian Days, Jake West’s follow-up to his 2010 documentary Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape, which covered the original video nasties scare of the early 1980s. The sequel takes us from the mid-eighties all the way up to 1999, taking in the rise …
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Book Review: No Monsters Allowed (Edited by Alex Davis)
“A worthy addition to the themed anthology lexicon.” No Monsters Allowed editor Alex Davis has taken exception to the proliferation of zombies and vampires in genre and declared there will be no room for such well-worn tropes within his anthology. The title, as well as being a mission statement of sorts, is ironic; the stories …
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FrightFest Glasgow 2014 (Part One)
With eleven films showing over just two days, FrightFest Glasgow is less gruelling than its southern counterpart, but only just. Not that any of the several hundred fans who gathered at the Glasgow Film Theatre on Friday 28 February and Saturday 1 March would complain. Along with the primary festival in London, and various all-nighters …
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5 Must Read Horror Articles 17 March 2014
Welcome to this week’s edition of Must Read Horror, your one-stop shop for the best horror articles the internet has to offer. This week: Horror Cinema’s Scariest Killer Scarecrows Our Deepest Insecurities Served Up on a Plate Hannibal’s Feminist Take on Horror Joseph D’Lacey on Myth, the Written Word, and Mass Hallucination Shallow and Vacuous: …
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News Round-up Week Ending 14 March
Horror Channel app generates Nightmares Horror Channel have launched their own iOS app that will terrorise users in their sleep. The app features 3 original stories by K.R. Griffiths and a number of other stories. Users listen to the app before bed and when they fall asleep the app influences their sleep with subtle sounds …
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