Women in Horror Calendar 2014 Barbie Wilde, Emily Booth and Pollyanna McIntosh are among the female stars that will appear in a brand new calendar showcasing the best and brightest female talent within the genre. Proceeds from the calendar will go to the charities, Rape Crisis and the Sophie Lancaster Foundation. The calendar is available …
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“A whacky film that makes very little sense and somehow succeeds!” What this film lacks in plot it makes up for in bizarre ingenuity. Essentially a found-footage film set at the end of WWII, Frankenstein’s Army sees a battalion of Russian soldiers stumble upon a Nazi laboratory filled with nightmarish monsters created and constructed from …
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“A fast, slick, tautly-told tale!” Spectral Press’ tenth chapbook begins at the story’s end and ends at its beginning, introducing along the way four damaged or damaging protagonists whose lives connect in the course of the tale: dominatrix Sian, burned-out priest turned junkie Jon, his helper and lover Meg, and unwilling assassin Rennie. All four have …
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“A supremely well-written novel!” In the acknowledgments to this his first novel, Geoffrey Gudgion credits several writing groups and editors with assisting him in crafting the book into its final form. This input is clear to see in the first three chapters which are finely honed, crisp and concise. They also threaten to derail the …
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Based on the bestselling book by Lars Kepler, The Hypnotist is a slow yet captivating movie from director, Lasse Hallström (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen). A family is slaughtered; the only survivor is the son, who is comatose and unable to help the police with their enquiries. Of course, the best thing to do in …
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Welcome, once again, to Must Read Horror. You want great horror articles? This is the place to find the best the web has to offer. This week: A Two Coreys Halloween: The Essential Horror Movies of Haim and Feldman Everyone Has a Skeleton in Their Closet: 15 Oscar-Nominated Actors in Television Horror Anthologies Revolt of …
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After two successful years the This Is Horror Awards are back! The first stage of the This Is Horror Awards 2013 begins now. Readers can e-mail in their nominations for each of the fifteen Award categories. Taking into consideration the nominations for each category This Is Horror will then draw up a shortlist. The nominations …
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Autumn line-up expands Autumn: Horror in the East 2 horror festival has announced another special guest. Lesley Manning, director of Ghostwatch, will be in attendance and taking part in a special Q&A after the show itself is screened. Free tickets to this exclusive screening are available now from the Autumn website but move quickly, they …
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Growing up on the outskirts of a small Northern shipyard town in the 1980s I didn’t get much opportunity to read the sort of gruesome, blood-soaked comics for which my dark heart longed. My father never threw my horror comics in the trash because I didn’t have any. In fact given the proclivity of my …
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Our Halloween gift to you is a special promotion on our chapbook, Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey. For three days only we will be offering it absolutely free from Amazon. The only thing we ask of you is that if you happened to enjoy it do please leave us a review. Hell, even if you don’t enjoy it …
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