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November 22, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For … The Spirits of Christmas by Paul Kane “The Spirit Of Christmas shows the dark and ghostly side to our festive celebrations.” Tis the season for something spooky–and in this, the first of the Black Shuck Shadows series of micro-collections, The Spirits of Christmas abound! Pull up a chair by the fire, …
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November 15, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For … Lost In A Pyramid & Other Mummy Stories “The tales of mummies, sarcophaguses and ancient curses here run the gamut from chilling horror to darkly comic.” ‘As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry patter behind him, and could see that this horror was …
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November 8, 2016
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4 mins to read
Look Out For … Ruin by Rich Hawkins “A typically grim yet engaging apocalypse from the brilliant Rich Hawkins.” These are the dark days, a time of ruin. It began when the black rocks fell to earth, bringing with them a contagion which infected man and beast alike, spreading death and destruction across the land. …
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November 1, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For … A Feast of Sorrows by Angela Slatter “Slatter takes the raw material of myth and fairy tale and uses it to build her own dark and poignant stories.” Angela Slatter’s first U.S. collection features twelve of the award-winning Australian author’s finest, darkest fairy tales, and adds two new stories to her …
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October 25, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For … The Valancourt Book Of Horror Stories “Even the most well-read horror fan will find gems in The Valancourt Book Of Horror Stories new to them.” Spanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been …
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October 18, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For … Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia “Certain Dark Things is an original, innovative reinvention of the staid vampire novel.” Welcome to Mexico City: an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is busy eking out a living when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into …
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October 11, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For … The Searching Dead by Ramsey Campbell “The Searching Dead has all the signs of another masterpiece from Ramsey Campbell.” Dominic Sheldrake has never forgotten his childhood in fifties Liverpool or the talk an old boy of his grammar school gave about the First World War. When his history teacher took the …
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October 4, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For … Thin Air by Michelle Paver “Thin Air proves a more than worthy follow up to Dark Matter.” The Himalayas, 1935. Kangchenjunga. Third-highest peak on earth. Greatest killer of them all. Five Englishmen set off from Darjeeling, determined to conquer the sacred summit. But courage can only take them so far–and the …
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September 27, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For … The Parts We Play by Stephen Volk “The Parts We Play showcases stories written in different styles, settings and voices.” An illusionist preparing his latest, most audacious trick … A movie fan hiding from a totalitarian regime … A pop singer created with the perfect ingredients for stardom … A folklorist …
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September 20, 2016
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4 mins to read
Look Out For … Electric Dreamhouse “These books are clearly labours of love for the authors involved, personal responses to films that they’ve watched over and over.” Imagine if you will that the BFI had a disreputable cousin, a Northern Grindhouse with tastes a little darker and stranger. With staff who love their movies with …
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