Each of the books discussed here features people with similar quirks: there are tortured artists (Diary, Haunted), attention-seekers (Choke, Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Survivor), experts in the many and varied uses of narcotics (Choke, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby – well, all of them, really). There are therapy junkies, sex addicts, fraudsters, trailer trash, delusionals, sacrificial women, …
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The Fixation by Mark Morris is the second in the Hammer Chillers series and carries on the superb standard set by the previous episode. The story focuses on Ian Hibbert and his crusade to rid his town of the plague of rubbish and anti-social behaviour to which it seems to be succumbing. Enlisting the help …
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The organisers of Autumn: Horror in the East convention are proud to announce that they will be screening Stephen Volk’s controversial BBC drama Ghostwatch at this year’s festival. Ghostwatch was shown once on British television and has never since been repeated due to a high volume of complaints that the BBC received after it aired. …
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Hammer Chillers is a brand new series of audio plays written by some of the brightest talents in the horror genre. The series kicks off with Stephen Gallagher’s tale, The Box. The Box centres around Stephen Dickens, expertly voiced by Lawrence Olivier Award-winning actor Con O’Neil, who is a safety instructor providing training for employees …
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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: Terror Before the Talkies: Horror Films of the Silent Era When The Thing Became John Carpenter’s The Thing Rick Hautala’s ‘The Horror…The Horror.’ Six Seedy Horror Films to Blight Your Eyes …
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Invisible Man appears on DVD Classic 70s television series The Invisible Man is released on DVD for the first time on 8 July. Starring David McCallum of The Man from U.N.C.L.E fame, the DVD will feature a full length pilot and twelve episodes. The Invisible Man will be released as a four DVD set. Dark …
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World War Z is the long awaited, often delayed, zombie opus starring Brad Pitt. Rumours of on-set bust ups, budgetary wrangles and rewritten endings have been dominating the tabloids and genre media for months. The film is a loose adaptation of Max Brook’s novel World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War. The …
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This month’s column topic readily sprang to mind as soon as I heard about it: one of my online author friends (who shall remain nameless) had received an email from some wag who said “I’ve never read your work and I never shall, because you are not a real writer. Real writers don’t write about …
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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. Keep on reading…
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Hot on the heels of our successful Altitude Films competition This Is Horror is pleased to announce the first of two new competitions where you, our beloved readers, can win some wonderful swag. First up we have two signed copies of Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits by Chuck Wendig to give away to two lucky …
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