Look Out For … Darling by Mercedes M. Yardley

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“With her latest, Yardley presents a strange and disturbing Gothic tale showing us sometimes you can never go home again.” When she was sixteen years old, Cherry LaRouche finally rid herself of the clutches of her hometown, Darling, Louisiana. Now, returning to Darling after her mother’s death, Cherry and her children are forced to move …

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TIH 446: Matt Wesolowski on Beast, Folklore, and Found Footage Movies

In this podcast Matt Wesolowski talks about Beast, folklore, found footage movies, and much more. About Matt Wesolowski Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Matt started his writing career in horror, and his short horror fiction has been published in numerous …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 1 August 2022

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Author Penny Goetjen recounts encounters with supernatural characters from the past at Crime Reads The Horror Tree’s Brain Babies series looks at the pigeonholing of writers Tor Nightfire study …

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TIH 445: Matt Wesolowski on Six Stories, Scott King, and Writing in a Podcast Format

TIH 445: Matt Wesolowski on Six Stories, Scott King, and Writing in a Podcast Format

In this podcast Matt Wesolowski talks about Six Stories, Scott King, writing in a podcast format, and much more. About Matt Wesolowski Matt Wesolowski is an author from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the UK. He is an English tutor for young people in care. Matt started his writing career in horror, and his short horror fiction has …

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News Round-up Week Ending 29 July 2022

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Available for pre-order now, The Devil Takes You Home, from writer Gabino Iglesias and Mulholland Books Buried in debt due to his young daughter’s illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a …

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Look Out For … Reluctant Immortals by Gwendolyn Kiste

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“With her latest, Kiste pits the toxic villains of gothic literature against the undead and forgotten women of the genre determined to end their evil reign once and for all.” Los Angeles, 1967. The forgotten women of literature—Lucy Westenra, a victim of Dracula, and Bertha Mason, Mr. Rochester’s wife in Jane Eyre—now undead immortals.  When …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 July 2022

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Welcome to Must Read Horror, where we search the internet for the best horror articles of the week so you don’t have to.  Without further ado: Crime Reads choose eight unconventional coming-of-age horror books for your reading pleasure LitHub consider how to find the strange within the mundane and vice versa Tor Nightfire take a …

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News Round-up Week Ending 22 July 2022

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Arriving 29 July from Crystal Lake Publishing and writer Gwendolyn N. Nix, I Have Asked To Be Where No Storms Come The facts of Domino Bluepoint’s afterlife are simple in this horror adventure: he’s a half-breed witch …

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Look Out For … Ricky’s Hand by David Quantick

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“With his latest, Quantick dives into trippy, violent body-horror with a broke photographer hounding the newest rising star who has weird dark secrets of her own.” Paparazzo Ricky Smart prowls Miami Beach barely scraping by snapping celebrity pics. One morning we wakes to discover his hand … is not his hand. It’s someone else’s hand, …

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Meet the Writer: Brennan LaFaro

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Brennan LaFaro is a horror writer living in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife, two sons, and his hounds. An avid lifelong reader, Brennan also co-hosts the Dead Headspace podcast and is the author of Slattery Falls, the first entry in a trilogy, as well as Last Stay, and the horror western, Noose. You can read …

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