Fiction Writers: Readers will judge a book by its cover

  • April 4, 2012

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In our latest instalment of Re(a)d-Letter Day, Simon Marshall-Jones gets to grips with the importance of a good book cover. Fiction Writers: Readers will judge a book by its cover

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Film Review: The Tapes

  • April 3, 2012

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The Tapes is another pick from the never-ending slew of found footage films, although this one is British and tries to include a different slant on the whole theme. Review: The Tapes

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Review: Rough Music by Simon Kurt Unsworth

  • April 3, 2012

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Rough Music by Simon Kurt Unsworth is the latest offering from renowned small press Spectral Press. Rough Music is Spectral’s first release of 2012 and effortlessly maintains the high standards set since its inception. Rough Music by Simon Kurt Unsworth

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Meet The Writer: James Brogden

  • April 2, 2012

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What first attracted you to horror writing? An 80s childhood in rural Tasmania effectively forced me to develop an imaginary world to escape into or go insane. My parents got me into fantasy and science fiction early on – from Dad, The Lord of the Rings, from Mum, the books of John Wyndham – but …

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Snowtown (2011)

  • March 30, 2012

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Between August 1992 and May 1999, eleven people were murdered by John Justin Bunting and his accomplices in Southern Australia (a twelfth charge was dropped due to lack of evidence). The bodies were found stored inside barrels of acid located in a former bank building in Snowtown, South Australia on 20 May 1999. Four people, …

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Ink on Ink: Wayne Simmons

  • March 29, 2012

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The most-decorated man in horror, Wayne Simmons, talks us through his tattoos in our latest instalment of Ink on Ink. Wayne Simmons Interview

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The value of literary agents

  • March 28, 2012

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Shaun Hutson gives his no BS take on the importance of literary agents. Does an author need an agent?

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Demons Descend Up North

  • March 27, 2012

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Demons

Thursday 29 March sees Manchester invaded by flesh eating demons. Grimm Up North will be screening a double bill of both 1980s Demon films at The Dancehouse in Manchester. Laden with floor to ceiling gore and X-rated shocks, Demons was the brainchild of Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento and battered audiences into submission over twenty …

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Flash Fear by Samuel Bonner

  • March 27, 2012

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Today, we proudly present Skinny Legs written by Samuel Bonner and illustrated by Jan Moat. Skinny Legs by Samuel Bonner

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Prize Winners: Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts

  • March 26, 2012

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Crimewave Ghosts 11, TTA Press

If you haven’t won a prize yet, don’t worry there are many more excellent genre prizes to give away. Today six lucky winners have bagged themselves a copy of TTA Press’s Crimewave Eleven: Ghosts featuring stories  by the likes of Alison Littlewood, Christopher Fowler, Steve Rasnic Tem and many other brilliant authors. Here are the …

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