News Round-up Week Ending 29 September 2017

Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …    Skybound Produces Ezekial and Shiva Figures Fans of the Walking Dead can now own their very own tiger in the form of Shiva, who comes bundled in a 2-pack with her owner Ezekiel, and available …

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TOD 018 Desirina Boskovich: Walking Reality’s Festering Fault Lines … with a Dog

In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Desirina Boskovich, author of Never Now Always. Also a mini-roundtable preview of the HP Lovecraft Film Festival & CthulhuCon (Oct. 6-8, Portland, OR) featuring Philip Gelatt (They Remain World Premiere), Gwen and Brian Callahan, and Justin Steele, plus reviews by Gabino Iglesias (LitReactor, Zero Saints) of They Remain and Desirina’s Never Now …

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Look Out For … Chase by Shaun Hutson

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Look Out For … Chase by Shaun Hutson “Always guaranteed to deliver a tale chock full of gore, violence and suspense.” David and Amy Carson will be given that elusive second chance but it will require them to plumb the very depths of their souls and their beliefs. As they and their eight year old …

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Midnight Mix-Tape: NecronomiCon 2017 Part 1: The Guests of Honor

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Uncle Jake’s here to hook you up with some of the latest and greatest horror short stories available online right now.  Stories that will challenge, evolve, and redefine what horror is, and what it will become.  These are themed mix-tapes of fear, dread, danger, and gore, lovingly curated just for your reading pleasure. During the …

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TIH 169: Nicole Cushing on Writer’s Block, Depicting Sexual Violence, and Transgressive Fiction

TIH 169 Nicole Cushing on Writer's Block, Depicting Sexual Violence, and Transgressive Fiction

In this podcast Nicole Cushing talks about writer’s block, depicting sexual violence, transgressive fiction, and much more. About Nicole Cushing Nicole Cushing is the Bram Stoker Award® winning author of Mr. Suicide. She has also written the Stoker-nominated short story collection The Mirrors and three stand-alone novellas (including her Shirley Jackson Award-nominated book Children of …

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Searchlight: Forensics

Let’s say you’re writing a story. Perhaps it’s a mystery, or suspense, or just plain old horror, and a character is killed. It’s extremely likely that this character’s death will alert the police, or the police will be involved at some point in the near future. And let’s say, for arguments sake, that you want …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 25 Sep 2017

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: Take A Tour Of Stephen King’s Derry    Script to Pieces: My Bloody Valentine 2 The Most Hated Films in Horror Every Character in Leatherface Who Connects to a Previous …

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News Round-up Week Ending 22 September 2017

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Here’s a small selection of the horror and genre news that caught our eye during the last week …    Russian Watchmaker Creates 27 Pennywise Watches Inspired by Pennywise’s 27 year cycle of returning to terrorise Derry, Russian watchmaker Konstantin Chaykin has created just 27 of these incredible timepieces inspired by Bill Skarsgård’s take on IT’s Killer clown. …

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Book Review: A Small Charred Face by Kazuki Sakuraba

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“Beyond the average tale of vampires, it bares the truths of life through both violence and beauty, imparting lessons one won’t soon forget.” A Small Charred Face is a series of three young adult stories that connect and describe the lives of an ancient Chinese race of vampires and the humans entwined in them. The …

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TOD 017 Christina Sng: All the Ends of the World

In this podcast Scott Nicolay interviews poet Christina Sng, author of Astropoetry and A Collection of Nightmares. Also Gabino Iglesias (LitReactor, Zero Saints) reviews Christina Sng’s A Collection of Nightmares and Jeremy Roberts Johnson’s In the River. Show Notes Poet Christina Sng joins Scott from Singapore to talk about her recent collections Astropoetry (Alban Lake Publishing) and A …

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