Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … The Migration by Helen Marshall

  • February 7, 2019

  • 3 mins to read

The Migration by Helen Marshall

“Considering Marshall completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford studying literature written during the Black Death, combined with a strange outbreak with undead consequences, The Migration is a must read for 2019.”  Catastrophic flooding across the world, and a strange disease is attacking the immune systems of the young. Kira Perella is diagnosed just as her sister …

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Book Review: Someone Like Me by M. R. Carey

  • February 6, 2019

  • 7 mins to read

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“Those new to M. R. Carey’s work will become immediate fans; for everyone else, Someone Like Me cements his position as one of the best genre writers around today.”   M.R. Carey is a name that should be familiar to most readers of horror. He appeared to explode onto the scene in 2014 with his …

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The Outer Dark Symposium 2019 comes to Atlanta’s Silver Scream FX Lab in March

  • February 5, 2019

  • 5 mins to read

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The Outer Dark presents the third annual The Outer Dark Symposium on the Greater Weird. Featuring more than forty creators of weird, horror, and speculative fiction, with a focus on diverse perspectives by women, LBGTQ+ and writers of color, this symposium is the only annual conference that focuses on contemporary weird fiction, with readings, panels, …

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Why I Wrote … Victoria by Jason Parent

  • January 31, 2019

  • 6 mins to read

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Jason Parent is an author of horror, thrillers, mysteries, science fiction, and dark humor, though his many novels, novellas, and short stories tend to blur the boundaries between these genres. From his award-winning first horror/mystery novel, What Hides Within, to his widely applauded police procedural/supernatural thriller, Seeing Evil, Jason’s work has won him praise from …

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