A grim, bleak crime thriller with a washed-out photographic palette to match, The Bridge was hyped as the first ever creative television collaboration between Denmark and Sweden, combining the talents of the Danish producers of TV successes The Killing and Borgen, and the Swedish team responsible for Wallander. It’s no surprise, then, that the plot …
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Winners: HP Lovecraft’s Chill
Continuing the Lovecraft birthday celebrations, here are the winners of our HP Lovecraft competition. Each will receive a copy of Chill. Winners: David Lees, Mike Roth, Jennifer Griffin, David McWilliam and James Mathurin We will be contacting each of you shortly and sending out the DVDs. Congratulations to the prize winners and thank you to …
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Review: Doll Parts by Wayne Simmons
With Drop Dead Gorgeous, Wayne Simmons set up an apocalypse unlike any other. His creatures were not just zombies, as you might have expected if you had read his debut novel, Flu. The monsters in DDG were all beautiful women, or Dolls, risen from the dead to wreak havoc around Belfast, their flapping eyes and …
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4 Must Read Horror Articles
This week on Must Read Horror Articles: The Horror of British TV Comedies [Remember This?] Spielberg Dumps JoBeth Williams in a Pool with Real Skeletons in Poltergeist Colin Harvey – one year on Discovery of M.R. James story gives chidden chance to write ghostly ending If you want more useful links like the must read …
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5 Reasons Why You Should Read At Least One HP Lovecraft Story
Today marks the birthday of HP Lovecraft, one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century. Lovecraft wrote hundreds of short stories and novellas from 1917 right up until his death in 1937. Stephen King proclaimed him one of the greatest practitioners of the classic horror tale, and yet some readers find his …
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News Round-up Week Ending 17 August 2012
Wayne Simmons and David Moody signing tour Wayne Simmons and David Moody have announced that they will be going on a signing tour across the country from August to December. “Wayne and I have become something of a double-act at signings and events”, says David Moody, “So much so that Waterstones have started spreading the …
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Review: The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine by John Llewellyn Probert
The Nine Deaths of Dr. Valentine by John Llewellyn Probert is the latest release in the Spectral Visions series from Spectral Press. The novella tells the story of a crazed serial killer who murders his victims, all doctors, in the style of murders that happen in Vincent Price films. The novella is dedicated to the …
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RIP Harry Harrison: 12 March 1925 – 15 August 2012
So many individuals have had significant impact and influence upon our lives that it’s easy for the importance of those who have disappeared from our minds to dim and fade away. I hadn’t thought about Harry Harrison for many years – not in any meaningful sense, anyway – until this morning when I heard of …
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Never Sleep Again – Nightmare on Elm Street Memories
We’ve spent the last week at Probert Towers watching Never Sleep Again, a quite remarkably exhaustive four-hour plus documentary on the Nightmare On Elm Street series of films and pretty much the last word on the subject. The team behind this have gathered together as many key personnel from each of these movies as they …
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