Is it really the second Halloween edition of this column? Looks like it is, and I’m still waiting on that office, Mike. Anyway, it’s my personal favourite time of year and it’s beating rain outside all weekend. That’s the ideal time to reflect and genuflect at the altars of the things we dig most. In …
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Review: Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Since the mid-1990s, Scandinavian fiction has enjoyed an unprecedented upsurge in popularity. Writers like Jo Nesbø and Camilla Läckberg have ridden the so-called Nordic Noir crimewave in the wake of Henning Mankell’s ‘Wallander’ novels and Stieg Larsson’s extraordinary ‘Millennium’ trilogy, gathering huge international sales, critical acclaim and large budget film adaptations. TV series like Wallander, …
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This week on Must Read Horror Articles: Top 5 Zombie Films of All Time Horror Education of the Week: ‘Aliens’ [Good Scenes in Bad Movies] The ‘House of Wax’ Edition Top Horror Films from the 1960s If you want more useful links like the must read horror articles we highlight every week, then please follow …
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Dexter: Season 7 Preview
Literary agent and editor, Sharon Ring, swings by to let us know her thoughts and predictions on Dexter and what we can expect from the new season, which premieres tonight. Read more…
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News Round-up Week Ending 28 September
Daniel Radcliffe will play Hunchback in Frankenstein The Woman in Black star, Daniel Radcliffe, has been reported to be interested in playing the lead role of the Hunchback in Paul McGuigan’s remake of the classic, Frankenstein. It is currently in the works at Twentieth Century Fox. The script is being finalised before serious talks can …
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Review: What gets left behind by Mark West
Mike Bergen is a married man from Barnstaple, where he happily lives with his wife and son. The story opens in Gaffney, where Mike is attending a work-related conference. Gaffney, however, is also the place where a terrible occurrence took the life of his best friend almost thirty years ago. Desperate to lay to rest …
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The Summer Blockbuster – A History of Horror Cinema
There is a period in cinema – roughly May to September – that is well known as the summer blockbuster season. This is the time of the year that studios vie for release dates against other studios to unleash their tent-pole movie that will hopefully clean up at the box office and ensure a healthy …
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Review: Boneland by Alan Garner
Boneland, the long awaited third volume in Alan Garner’s Weirdstone trilogy, is a finely drawn and ambiguous tale, that every reader will draw different things from. This is perhaps the mark of a truly great novel, and one that will surely last in memory as long as its predecessors. Considering the long gap since the …
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4 Must Read Horror Articles
This week on Must Read Horror Articles: The Fifty Stephen King Week: The ballad of Richard Bachman, alter ego of Stephen King The Top 10 Horror Stories Three Elements That Make Good Horror Games If you want more useful links like the must read horror articles we highlight every week, then please follow @ThisIsHorror on Twitter. …
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