Well, here we are, ready for another round of Haunted Australia. In the past, I’ve covered Victoria (my home) and New South Wales, the site of the first landing when Australia was colonised. As such, you’d expect New South Wales to have the strongest history of hauntings, but you could be wrong. Down below mainland …
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As we saw last month with H.G. Wells’ The Island of Doctor Moreau, our baser natures and bestial instincts can never truly be entirely suppressed. Wells implies that we all have the capacity to revert back to more primitive states in certain situations, that we all still unavoidably bear the “mark of the beast” though …
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Welcome to Must Read Horror, the place to find the best horror articles of the week. Once again we’ve searched the internet for interesting and notable articles for your reading pleasure. This week: Is Horror the Toughest Genre to Crack? 10 Killer Reasons Why Being a Horror Fan is Awesome The One Thing That Scares …
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“A generic found footage film!” Think The Blair Witch Project but with snow instead of leaves and you pretty much have the plot of this found-footage movie. Not content with a Google search, five young filmmakers set out to recreate the episode where nine Russians mysteriously disappeared in the Ural Mountains in 1959. An avalanche …
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“Pitch-black humour, gory deaths and enough twists and turns to keep you satisfied throughout!” After releasing 2010’s okay but unspectacular A Horrible Way To Die and the ‘Tape 56’ short in V/H/S, anticipation is decidedly mixed for Adam Wingard’s You’re Next. Yet what we are presented with is hands-down the best film of the opening …
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My very first column for This Is Horror, back in December 2011, was about collecting horror movie soundtracks. It was my intention, way back then, to revisit the subject with some regularity, and yet here we are in September 2013 and I still have yet to say anything more about one of the most vital …
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The Unquiet House is nearby The cover art for Alison Littlewood’s forthcoming novel The Unquiet House has been released by Jo Fletcher Books. The haunted house novel is stated for release in March 2014. In the meantime you can hear Alison read at the next This Is Horror event in Coventry on 5 October. For …
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“Deserves to be in any discerning horror fan’s library!” “Future generations will regard (Ramsey Campbell) as the leading horror writer of our generation,” S T Joshi is quoted as saying on the cover of this latest short story collection from “Britain’s most respected living horror writer”. It would probably be possible to write an entire …
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Authenticity is everything when it comes to writing. Especially when you’re writing about things that are very unlikely to happen. Like decapitating a member of the walking dead with a malfunctioning sex toy. Or staking a vampire with the sharpened end of a frozen blood sausage. If this is outside of the author’s experience then …
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In this podcast we interview Paul Hyett, the writer and director of The Seasoning House. Topics [01:00] Paul Hyett interview and introduction to The Seasoning House [03:26] Keeping the subject matter sincere and authentic [05:12] Releasing The Seasoning House uncut [06:36] The challenge of a relative silent first half [08:05] Paul E. Francis’ soundtrack [10:19] …
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