News Round-up Week Ending 5 February 2021

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Daughters of Darkness, the debut anthology from Black Angel, coming 14 February A quartet of established female horror writers from both sides of the Atlantic have joined supernatural forces to bring you – Daughters of Darkness …

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Look Out For … Goddess of Filth by V. Castro

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“With her latest novella, Castro conjures a fast-paced, hard-hitting tale of possession and the power of friendship straight out of Aztec mythology.” On a hot summer night, five friends … Lourdes, Ana, Pauline, Fernanda, and Perla … have a séance. Everything is fun and games and tipsy laughter, but soon their giggles turn to horror …

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TIH 384: Rena Mason on The Evolutionist, Swimming with Sharks, and Working in the Operating Theatre

TIH 384 Rena Mason on The Evolutionist, Swimming with Sharks, and Working in the Operating Theatre

In this podcast Rena Mason talks about The Evolutionist, swimming with sharks, working in the operating theatre, 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 …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 1 February 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: Mother Horror picks out eight terrifying translated tales for LitReactor Gemma Amor writes for Horrified Magazine on the female experience of fear Kendall Reviews present the first chapter of …

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News Round-up Week Ending 29 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 … Coming 9 March from writer A. G. Slatter and Titan Books, All the Murmuring Bones, available for pre-order now Miren O’Malley was orphaned as a young child and brought up by her grandparents on their isolated, rambling …

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Look Out For … The Loosening Skin by Aliya Whiteley

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“With her latest, Whiteley takes on our fascination with fame and celebrities, and the terrible price we pay when we’re forced to reinvent ourselves.” Rose Allington suffers from a very strange disease, an illness in which she sheds her skin. These sheds occur quickly, and ultimately change everything about her, who she loves, and trusts. …

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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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