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  We promised you that orders would open for David Moody’s Joe & Me shortly, and we’re pleased to make good on that promise today. Reviews have already started to come in with STARBURST MAGAZINE describing it as “Satisfyingly morose. …

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The Top 10 Vampire Movies

Today we welcome Sam Stone, award-winning author of The Vampire Gene series to This Is Horror to discuss ten of her favourite vampire films. The Top 10 Vampire Movies

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A year ago, This Is Horror was born albeit under its former alias Read Horror. It’s been one hell of a journey thus far and we’re not planning on slowing down any time soon. In fact, we’re stepping things up …

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The observant amongst you may have noticed the ‘Shop’ button that has appeared in the navigation bar. Longstanding readers of This Is Horror will know that we’re always diversifying and this is another step we’ve decided to take. At the …

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Interview: Monica S. Kuebler

Alan Kelly continues his Women in Horror Recognition interview series with Monica S. Kuebler. Interview with Monica S. Kuebler  

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The Croning By Laird Barron

May 17, 2012

May 17, 2012

236 largeNightshade Books have just announced the debut novel from Shirley Jackson Award winning author Laird Barron.  Laird Barron is the author of the critically acclaimed collections The Imago Sequence and Occultation.  With The Croning, Laird has built on his reputation as a new and exciting author and has created a terrifying  novel that combines cosmic horror, with the the horror of family secrets.

“Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us. Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly eighty years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge. Donald will discover the dark secrets along the edges, unearthing savage truths about his wife Michelle, their adult twins, and all he knows and trusts. For Donald is about to stumble on the secret of The Croning. “

JIM MCLEOD


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London Horror Festival 2012

May 17, 2012

May 17, 2012

London Horror FestivalFollowing the success of their debut event last year, the UK’s festival of horror in the performing arts will be returning this Halloween for three weeks of macabre entertainment.

The Etcetera Theatre, Camden will play host to this year’s Festival, which welcomes a broad range of horror theatre, comedy, magic and performance art, from psychological spine-chillers to all-out splatter, improvised ghost stories to grotesque stand-up and séance magic to body horror, and almost anything else imaginable. Their purpose is to foster new talent as well as nurturing the already burgeoning live horror scene within the UK.

Applications are now open for this year’s festival, they are happy to accept submissions from performers or companies regardless of whether they have explored the horror genre before. The organisers are  looking for exciting and committed groups looking to push the boundaries of live entertainment.

Applications can be made at  London Horror Festival.

JIM MCLEOD

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Pax Britannia: Time’s Arrow

May 17, 2012

May 17, 2012

BLACK SWANThe caper is afoot, but where it leads only YOU decide! The latest installment of the exciting new novel from Abaddon, Pax Britannia: Time’s Arrow, is coming!

In a unique publishing experiment, readers themselves get to decide on the fate of our hero Ulysses and where the Time’s Arrow story will take them.

Our hero Ulysses Quicksilver – wanted by the French Police for murder – battles his way across Paris, from the Louvre to Notre Dame, in order to prove his innocence. Readers have been voting online on where they want the story to go and they overwhelmingly voted for Ulysses to go in search of the mysterious “M. Lumière”.

Time’s Arrow puts the reader in charge and merges the best of print and online. Each instalment is published as an e-book with readers able to vote on where THEY want the story to go at the end of each episode. The first installment, Red Handed, was published in October and once all three instalments have been published, they will be bound together into a print edition.

JIM MCLEOD

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Solaris To Publish Lavie Tidhar’s Osama

May 17, 2012

May 17, 2012

osamaSolaris  has acquired the  mass market rights to Lavie Tidhar’s highly-praised and BSFA Award-nominated novel Osama.  Lauded as one of the most significant genre books of the year, Osama will be released in October 2012.

Osama is set in an alternate world without global terrorism. A private detective is hired by a mysterious woman to find a man: the obscure author of pulp fiction novels featuring one Osama Bin Laden.   Joe’s quest to find the man takes him across the world, from the backwaters of Asia to the European Capitals of Paris and London, and as the mystery deepens around him there is one question he is trying hard not to ask: who is he, really, and how much of the books are fiction? Chased by unknown assailants, Joe’s identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? And what do they want? Joe knows how the story should end, but even he is not ready for the truths he’ll find in New York and, finally, on top a quiet hill above Kabul—nor for the choice he will at last have to make.

Tidhar brilliantly delves into the modern global subconscious, mixing together film noir, non-fiction, alternative history and thrillers to create an unsettling yet utterly compelling portrayal of our times.

JIM MCLEOD

 

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