Greetings gentle reader, before we get down to the business of this month’s column, I’d like to tell you a horror story. A real life horror story. Keep on reading…
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News Round-up Week Ending 28 June
Angry Robot announce new author Angry Robot have announced that they have signed up former Spin City actor Michael Boatman to a two book deal. Boatman will produce the novels Last God Standing (Spring 2014) and Who Wants to be the Prince of Darkness? (2015) over the next two years. Horror Channel go howling mad …
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Path of Needles by Alison Littlewood
Alison Littlewood burst into the mainstream when her debut novel, A Cold Season, was selected as part of Richard and Judy’s 2012 Book Club and found itself in supermarket aisles and bookshop window displays. It was a supremely paced and engrossing book with an exemplary sense of atmosphere and location, but, Path of Needles is …
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The Ravenglass Eye by Tom Fletcher
If we here at This Is Horror composed our copy with quill and parchment or typewriter and paper, then the discarded attempts at reviewing The Ravenglass Eye would have required a fleet of bin lorries to transport them away. The novel provides a satisfying and gripping narrative but putting your finger on precisely why it …
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Zombies, Zombies, Zombies!
With the UK release of World War Z imminent, and the US Encyclopedia of the Zombie forthcoming (that I’ve written some essays for, namely on Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce, Hammer’s Plague of the Zombies and the Phantasm series of films), I’ve been on a bit of a zombie movie re-watch recently. The zombie has always been …
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R.I.P Richard Matheson: You Are Legend, 1926 – 2013
It is with great sadness that we write of Richard Matheson’s passing. Matheson was the author of I Am Legend, Hell House, The Incredible Shrinking Man, countless episodes of The Twilight Zone and many other seminal works including Duel, originally a short story which was adapted into a film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by …
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David Moody VS Wayne Simmons, This Weekend
We announced our David Moody VS Wayne Simmons event a few weeks ago but have a few more details to unveil as we prepare for the big day. Firstly, anyone travelling from over 100 miles away can get into the event for free. We know that a lot of our fans travel from all over …
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Interview: Joolz Denby, Part I
Poet, novelist, spoken word performer, artist (most famously for the albums and singles of rock band New Model Army) and tattooist, Joolz Denby has been producing a powerful and varied body of work since the 1980s, much of it gorgeously dark and unsettling.Whether she′s touching on the terrible things humans are capable of doing to …
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News Round-up Week Ending 21 June
Film4 FrightFest 2013 Announces Open and Closing Night Films The opening and closing films of this year’s FrightFest have been announced. The Ford Brothers The Dead 2: India will kick off proceedings, while the UK premiere of Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s revenge thriller, Big Bad Wolves, will draw things to a close. All the …
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