Book Review: The Gulp by Alan Baxter

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“Baxter has crafted the literary equivalent of a Venus flytrap and, by the time we feel the descent towards our own doom, the trap is already closing, and we are perfectly poised for the next volume of tales from The Gulp.” As Alan Baxter has himself said, he is yet to meet a genre he …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 January 2021

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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: Max Booth III writes for LitReactor on the transition to being a full time writer Bloody Disgusting dive into Promising Young Woman and consider the evolution of the rape revenge …

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TIH 383: Rena Mason on Where the Wild Things Are, Uncanny Experiences, and Life Lessons

TIH 383: Rena Mason on Where the Wild Things Are, Uncanny Experiences, and Life Lessons

In this podcast Rena Mason talks about Where the Wild Things Are, uncanny experiences, life lessons, and much more. About Rena Mason Rena Mason is an American author of Thai-Chinese descent, and the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Evolutionist and ‘The Devil’s Throat’, as well as a 2014 Stage 32 / The Blood List …

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News Round-up Week Ending 22 January 2021

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Whistling Past the Graveyard, the new novel from writer Lex Jones and Burdizzo Books, coming 29 January A hilltop cemetery where the dead just won’t stay sleeping. An ill-fated voyage to an uncharted region off the …

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Book Review: Cathedral by Dave Jeffery

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“An exciting and enthralling new world in horror fiction, from an author who only seems to be growing in confidence and talent with each installment.”   Back in 2019, when the real world was slightly less insane than it is now, Dave Jeffery introduced us to a different world, one ravaged by a mutated Meningitis …

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Look Out For … The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

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“Past and present collide as an obsessed documentary filmmaker learns the more she digs for the truth, the more the truth comes hunting for her.” Ever since she was a little girl, Alice Lindstedt has had an obsession with “The Lost Village”. In 1959, her grandmother’s family disappeared in this old mining town. Now Alice …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 18 January 2021

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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: Sublime Horror review new non-fiction book, Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces George Daniel Lea writes for The Ginger Nuts of Horror on assumed definitions in genre fiction …

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News Round-up Week Ending 15 January 2021

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New from writer Mark Cassell and available for a limited time for only 99p/99c in eBook format, Fabric, the dark fantasy box-set is out now A 4-book box set containing supernatural and paranormal tales of varying …

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TOD 090 Quarantine Readings: Linda Addison and Marc Laidlaw

In our first podcast of 2021 The Outer Dark presents Quarantine Readings by Linda D. Addison and Marc Laidlaw. The interviews were recorded on Wed. Jan. 6 and Thurs, Jan. 7, 2021.  Show Notes The Outer Dark Quarantine Reading series kicks off 2021 with  Linda D. Addison and Marc Laidlaw. (0:42:52). Linda reads the poem …

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Look Out For … In That Endlessness, Our End by Gemma Files

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“With her latest collection, Files presents us with her most recent stories, diving into the deep end of desolation and the cold wasteland of existential dread.” A cloudy antique bottle, open to wish your rages inside. A king who preys on his bloodline while his long dead remains smolder for centuries. The Airbnb that eats …

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