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
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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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
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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