Look Out For … The Book of Malachi by T.C. Farren

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“With her third novel, Farren easily slips into horror and speculative fiction with a searing story of forgiveness and survival.”  Thirty years old and mute, Malachi receives a truly remarkable job offer: Six months as warden for Raizier Pharmaceuticals, and they’ll graft him a new tongue.  The job is on an oil rig, part of …

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Book Review: Writing in the Dark by Tim Waggoner

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“Through a combination of many years teaching and many more writing in the genre he loves, Tim Waggoner has created a unique writing manual that stands head and shoulders above other creative reference books.”   In the near-twenty years that his writing has been in print, Tim Waggoner has published close to fifty novels and …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 2 November 2020

Ghostwatch

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: The Guardian talk to two members of the team behind the BBC’s Ghostwatch, about how the cult mockumentary came together Damien Angelica Walters writes for Tor Nightfire on growing up …

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TIH 371: David Cummings on The NoSleep Podcast, Local Ghost Stories, and Coping Mechanisms for Low Self-Confidence

TIH 371 David Cummings on The NoSleep Podcast, Local Ghost Stories, and Coping Mechanisms for Low Self Confidence

In this podcast David Cummings talks about The NoSleep Podcast, local ghost stories, coping mechanisms for low self confidence, and much more. About David Cummings David Cummings—musician, voice actor, raconteur. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada over 50 years ago. In 2011, David rekindled his love of voice acting and audio horror storytelling with a …

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News Round-up Week Ending 30 October 2020

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … New charity drabble anthology, It Came From The Darkness, out today from Red Cape Publishing and Philip Rogers 101 PR Featuring stories by Tim Lebbon, C. M. Saunders, Matthew V. Brockmeyer and others, It Came From The …

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TOD 086 The Outer Dark Symposium 2020: From Yellow Wallpaper to Spectral Hues: Color in Weird Fiction Panel

In this podcast, The Outer Dark Virtual Symposium 2020 presents the panel From Yellow Wallpaper to Spectral Hues: Color in Weird Fiction moderated by Brian Hauser with Daniel Braum, Craig Laurance Gidney, Gwendolyn Kiste, Hysop Mulero, and Liv Rainey-Smith. PLUS Scott Nicolay reads “The Marlyweck Cemetery” by Belgian Weird fantasist Jean Ray. This programming was …

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Look Out For … Boneset & Feathers by Gwendolyn Kiste

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“With her latest novel, Kiste conjures a time long ago, and witches and those that wish to destroy them, with a story only she could deliver.” Barely escaping execution, Odette has lived in exile in the woods for five years. The rest of her family wasn’t so lucky, and all her magic wasn’t enough to …

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Book Review: Roth-Steyr by Simon Bestwick

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“The combination of exciting premise and a strong cast of characters—especially our heroine—makes for an exciting, well-paced and thoroughly fantastic read.”   With six novels, two novellas and six collections under his belt, Simon Bestwick has been steadily producing fiction of great quality and is, according to Ramsey Campbell, “one of the most accomplished and …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 26 October 2020

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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: Writer Indrapramit Das writes on the monstrousness of the real for Tor Nightfire Stephanie M. Wytovich writes for LitReactor on poetry and battling the slasher movie in your head …

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News Round-up Week Ending 23 October 2020

Broken Things

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week … Broken Things: A Tale of Durstan, by George Mann, available for pre-order now from PS Publishing’s new Absinthe Books imprint The goddess Amaranth, Queen of the Broken, has been reborn for the first time in generations …

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