Review: The Victim

Loner Kyle (Biehn) lives alone in his cabin in the woods, happy to keep himself ostracised from the rest of society. However, he finds that it’s not always easy to keep society at arm’s length as he finds his door being beaten upon one dark night. When he opens the door to a screaming woman, …

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News Round-up Week Ending 28 December

Robert Lloyd Parry plans a fantastic 2013 Fans of M.R. James will be thrilled to learn that the wonderful Robert Lloyd Parry has announced a number of exciting ventures for the New Year. There will be a short run of shows in London, Cambridge and Bristol in January in addition to the release of a …

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Interview: Paul Johnson

Tattooing professionally since 2008, Paul’s love of horror, comic books and sci-fi has greatly inspired his work – ranging from fantastic realism to his own cartoon-style designs. Keep on reading…

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Review: The Reanimation of Edward Schuett by Derek J. Goodman

Edward Schuett wakes up in the toy aisle of a store. At first, he can barely move and his hearing is impaired. With just glimpses of memories to go on, he tries to piece together how he ended up there and what might have happened to his family. The last thing he can recall is …

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Interview: Lynda Hilburn

Psychotherapist Lynda Hilburn writes paranormal fiction, urban fantasy and dark fantasy novels. She lives in Boulder, Colorado in the USA and is still waiting for a real vampire to show up in her waiting room. Keep on reading…

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Horror retrospective: Maniac (1980)

Maniac (1980) is the unsung emperor of the stalker/slasher subgenre. It’s a gritty, low budget exploitation movie from the golden era of horror, and follows all the standard conventions of a stalker/slasher film: you have a disturbed male protagonist that kills a number of attractive women with a sharp implement (a typical phallic penetration metaphor …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles – 24 December 2012

He Never Dies

It’s that time again, folks! We’ve been scouring for the best horror articles the internet has to offer, and since Christmas is almost upon us there’s a festive inclusion this time around. This week on Must Read Horror: 10 horror games that deserve sequels Merry Bloody Christmas: Top 5 Yuletide horror films Reinventing The Mummy …

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With All My Love Always Always Forever XXX by Stephen Volk

Fleet services was packed. It always was, on the run up to the holidays. They’d learnt to be patient over the years. They knew they might not see the right candidate for a while. But there always was one. Keep on reading…

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News Round-up Week Ending 21 December

Norman Bates

Grimm Up North plan for 2013 The organisers of Grimm Up North have announced their line-up for the early part of next year. 2013 will begin with a double bill of Repulsion & Chained on 9 January. This is then followed by Texas Chainsaw Massacre and I Didn’t Come Here to Die on 23 January. The month is then …

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As Pure as the Driven Snow by BC Furtney

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Ev’rywhere you go… There wasn’t much holiday cheer going around the mean city, but there never was. Just another holiday, just another workday. Lindsay reached down to cup the fat bastard’s balls before he came. She knew he was going to, by the way his jelly bowl …

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