The event starts at 6:30pm. Film Studies lecturer, podcast host and writer, John Costello will be filling in as host for the absent Jasper Bark who has fallen ill (but don’t worry he assures us he’ll be back and in full swing for Edinburgh later this month). The Writer’s Room is situated in Milburn …
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This month I have had the good fortune, thanks to those lovely people at Second Sight, to revisit a movie I haven’t seen since its original UK VHS release back in the late 1980s. The film is From Beyond, it was Stuart Gordon’s follow-up to his delirious and delicious Re-Animator, and it comes out on blu-ray and …
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Pablo Picasso is reported to have said: “good artists borrow, great artists steal.” This quote often makes me wonder if ‘great artists’ isn’t a Spanish euphemism for ‘talentless c***s’ (maybe something got lost in the translation). George Bernard Shaw, the long winded playwright and rent-a-quote once said something similar about writers. It’s possible that Shaw …
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I was married late last year. It was on a very lucky day, both for me and for the whole world. We held the ceremony and reception on 23 December, the day after the predicted end of the world, as foretold by the Mayan culture, or at least as interpreted by millions around the world. …
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Hi there. Yes, I’ve been away for a while. Yes, I know, this is supposed to be a monthly column. There’ve been reasons, but I won’t bother you with them just now. Maybe another time. Meanwhile, picture this: The final scene of Hammer’s Dracula. Christopher Lee, red-eyed, teeth bared – demonic, imposing, all but immortal; …
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This week we launch The Fox by Conrad Williams with an exciting free event on Friday March 1 with Conrad Williams, Graham Joyce, V.H. Leslie and Jasper Bark at The University of Warwick. Don’t forget to e-mail Michael@thisishorror.co.uk to reserve your place. You can also check out the Facebook event here. To coincide with the …
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To swerve from destiny is to deny it… Two stripped-down speed machines, two single-minded drivers and five miles of dead straight highway. Who will be vindicated? Cover art by Jason Hicks. To guarantee a copy of Roadkill by Joseph D’Lacey, landing in Spring 2013, please subscribe to the This Is Horror Premium Chapbooks.
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Entertaining and engaging on multiple levels, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter is a fast-paced global journey through four years of exploration and investigation of creature sightings. It stands as a companion piece to the popular SyFy Channel (USA) series of the same name, and provides insight into the character of narrator and leader Josh Gates. …
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With Resident Evil: Retribution, we find ourselves at the fifth instalment of a series that has some of the best horror computer game roots, but has consistently wasted them. Sadly, Anderson has not learned from previous mistakes and this is just more of the same. Keep on reading…
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Whitstable is the new novella from Spectral Press and Ghostwatch scribe Stephen Volk. Written as a touching and heartfelt tribute to the last Peter Cushing in his centenary year. Peter Cushing had a massive influence on the horror genre as a whole, Stephen Volk and Simon Marshall-Jones have teamed up to produce a poignant, tender …
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