News Round-up Week Ending 7 June

The Condemned

New books from Gray Friar Press Gray Friar Press have announced two new titles are now available to buy on their website. First is the Paul Finch edited Terror Tales of London  featuring stories from Adam Nevill, Nina Allan and Mark Morris amongst others. Secondly is The Condemned by This Is Horror’s political malcontent Simon Bestwick. The Condemned is …

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Graham Joyce reads from Memoirs of a Master Forger

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Graham Joyce reads from Memoirs of a Master Forger at The University of Warwick as part of The Fox by Conrad Williams launch event. The event is presented by This Is Horror podcast co-host, John Costello. The event took place in The Writer’s Room alongside Conrad Williams and V.H. Leslie. Fans of Graham Joyce will …

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Joseph D’Lacey, Adam Nevill and Jasper Bark launch Roadkill at Coventry Central Library

Roadkill Coventry Library

After changing venue (details in the link) for our event this Saturday we thought it would be a good idea to confirm the details for our fabulous Roadkill launch event. Saturday June 8, 2013 sees the launch of the fourth This Is Horror chapbook, Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey. To celebrate what will mark the final …

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The history of the ghost story and what makes a great tale

As many of you will know by now, my day job is running a small publishing imprint called Spectral Press. Furthermore, as its name implies, it concentrates (mostly) on fiction of the supernatural or ghostly kind (although, to be fair, as the press has expanded so has its remit, something which will continue as it …

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Change of venue: Joseph D’Lacey, Adam Nevill and Jasper Bark live at Coventry Central Library

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As fans of our Facebook page may have already noticed Saturday’s fantastic launch event for Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey featuring award-winning authors Adam Nevill and Jasper Bark will now be taking place at Coventry Central Library and NOT Waterstone’s. The venue is on the same street – Smithford Way – and is in the city …

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Dead End Drive-In

The phenomenal success of George Miller’s Australian post-apocalyptic science fiction thrillers Mad Max (1979) and its sequel Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior in the US) subsequently caused fall out of its own in the form of numerous rip-offs and imitations that all attempted to cash in on those movies’ heady mix of violence, action …

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Scanners II: The New Order

Arriving a good ten years after Cronenberg’s original, Scanners II is probably a film that no one expected or even wanted. None of the original cast return, and the single connection to that first film (revealed about halfway in) feels almost like an afterthought. Keep on reading…

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 3 June 2013

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: The New French Extremity: An Endeavour into Excessive Violence Set Visit Report: Five Things We Learned About Insidious Chapter 2 The Biggest Reasons Why Faeries Are Evil A Point of View …

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TIH 009: Joe Hill on NOS4A2, Family and Writing Novels

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In this podcast Dan Howarth interviews Joe Hill in Liverpool Waterstone’s ahead of his NOS4R2/NOS4A2 launch. We then discuss the event in the This Is Horror studio. Topics [1:30] Joe Hill interview [2:00] Weather banter [2:48] Intention and expectations when writing a novel [8:05] Christmas and the macabre [10:34] Inspiration and the vampire mythology [14:10] …

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Ghost-hunting in Australia (aka Oh Crap! What was that noise?) Part One

From Friday 17 May to Sunday 19 May, my wife and I stayed in an abandoned and haunted lunatic asylum. Advertised as an ‘investigation weekend’, it included nearly thirty guests and three paranormal investigation groups. The guests could take part in ongoing paranormal investigations from the Friday until the Sunday. Keep on reading…

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