This Is Horror Chapbook Five: Chalk by Pat Cadigan

We are proud to announce the fifth chapbook in the This Is Horror Premium Chapbook series – Chalk by Pat Cadigan. Please (re)subscribe to the chapbook series here. We will announce details of the launch and pre-order soon. In the meantime, behold the wonderful cover art from Pye Parr and the chapbook’s blurb below. Can you find …

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Gods & Monsters: Unclean Spirits Competition Winners

Chuck Wendig

This Is Horror are delighted to announce the two lucky winners of our fantastic Chuck Wendig competition. The winners are Amy Hobbs from Norfolk and Anthony Delaney of Surrey. Congratulations! This Is Horror will be in touch with you shortly to confirm delivery of the books. Thanks to everyone who entered the competition, keep an …

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Book Review: A Book of Horrors (Edited by Stephen Jones)

A Book Of Horrors, edited by Stephen Jones

“A mixed bag that will entertain die hard genre fans!” This imposing trade paperback anthology from Jo Fletcher Books (St. Martin’s Press in the US) boasts an impressive roster of international talent, including Stephen King, Dennis Etchison, Ramsey Campbell, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Richard Christian Matheson, Michael Marshall Smith and Lisa Tuttle. Here rubbing shoulders are …

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5 Must Read Articles – 22 July 2013

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: The 10 Best Worst Horror Movies Day of the Woman: Female Horror Journalists You Should Be Reading (That Aren’t Plagiarists!) Good on Paper: The Best Comic Adaptations of …

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Where the hell is Joseph D’Lacey?

It’s a question we’ve been asked several times since the author of Roadkill removed himself from all forms of social media a few months back. Suspected – at first – of having finally fallen victim to a fatal Jasper Bark attack, we were relieved to find out that Joseph is alive and well. And finally …

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News Round-up Week Ending 19 July

Hunting Shadows

Solaris to publish Stourton Solaris are pleased to announce that they will be publishing Ivo Stourton’s debut genre novel The Happier Dead in 2014.The story is set in a futuristic London where an exclusive health spa hides dark secrets… Laird Barron caught in the Undertow Undertow Publications have announced that Laird Barron, author of The …

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Film Review: The Brood (1979)

The Brood, David Cronenberg

Exactly what UK fans of The Brood have been waiting for! At last! David Cronenberg’s classic 1979 body horror picture (his third after having made Shivers and Rabid) receives the treatment it deserves on UK blu-ray and DVD. It’s been a long time coming but hopefully, as this review will reveal, it’s been worth the …

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Audiobook Review: Spanish Girls by Paul Magrs

Paul Magrs

A fun and entertaining black comedy! The plot of this story is fairly simplistic, and the characters are sketched in pretty broad strokes – and rather similar to the mother and son serial killers from the TV series Psychoville (right down to the son’s Harry H. Corbett accent) – but that doesn’t detract from some …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles – 15 July 2013

kaiju

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: Digging into Horror’s Final Girl Trope Clive Barker in Comics Part V: IDW and The Thief of Always The 10 Greatest Giant Monster Movies of All Time French …

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Film Review: Slice & Dice: The Slasher Film Forever (2013)

Slice & Dice: The Slasher Film Forever

A party disc for slasher fans! The slasher film has its roots in movies of the 60s and 70s. It really came into its own, however, in the 80s. That was the time that everyone and their dog was running around the woods making movies in which a masked, often speechless maniac pursued the unwise, …

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