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News Round-up Week Ending 16 January

VH Leslie

Annabelle is back After terrorising viewers throughout cinemas last year, Annabelle is due to return at the end of next month on Blu-Ray and DVD. The movie will be available to purchase for home entertainment from 23 February 2015. From movie moguls, Warner Bros, Annabelle tells the story of an expecting couple, who get more …

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News Round-up Week Ending 9 January

Probably Monsters

FantasyCon 2015 announces Guests of Honour FantasyCon 2015, which is being held this year at East Midlands Conference Centre and Orchard Hotel from 23 to 25 October, have now announced two of their guests of honour. This year’s convention, run by the British Fantasy Society, will host best-selling author and journalist, John Connolly and genre …

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News Round-up Week Ending 2 January

Woman In Black 2

The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death From British horror empire Hammer Film Productions, comes The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death. The film, released on New Year’s Day, tells the story of a group of World War II evacuees staying in Eel Marsh House. Little by little the strange behaviour of the …

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The Cutting Room: Terror Tales and Krampus

Tales of Terror As well as directing many feature length movies based on the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, Roger Corman also created several shorts based on the stories of the gothic author too. Collected here are three of those shorts, all starring Corman collaborator Vincent Price. In The Black Cat Price stars with Peter …

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News Round-up Week Ending 19 December

z nation

Tis the season… Amalgam studios have delivered a stocking filler this year in the form of their latest short film Secret Santa. The video, starring Emily Rudd, plays on the longstanding office tradition of Secret Santa, with a nice twist to add a bit of Christmas cheer. Unwrap your Christmas Treat… Ho Ho Ho! Crimson ‘Peek’ …

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Book Review: Gifts For The One Who Comes After by Helen Marshall

Gifts

“These stories continually amaze and beguile!” Helen Marshall is a Canadian poet and short story writer; Gifts For The One Who Comes After is her second collection of short fiction, after the highly acclaimed Hair Side Flesh Side, both published by ChiZine. Marshall’s work is fantastical and surreal, with similarities to that of writers like …

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The Cutting Room: Crimson Peak and The Babadook

Crimson Peak

Crimson Peak Set in in the 19th Century, young author Edith Cushing is living together with her charming new husband Sir Thomas Sharpe in a crumbling mansion set within the mountainous, rural region of Cumbria in the north of England, where she soon discovers that he is not quite who he appears to be. Why …

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Interview: Helen Marshall on Gifts For The One Who Comes After, Poetry and Travel

Helen Marshall

So, for those of our readers who don’t know you, could you tell us a bit about yourself? Who is Helen Marshall? I’m a writer and medieval book historian, originally from Canada but currently situated in Oxford. I like shrunken heads, jetpacks, and single malt scotch. I’ve also got a new collection of short stories …

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News Round-up Week Ending 12 December

King Season

Grimmfest announce Stephen King Season Manchester’s horror movie moguls have announced that they will be running a Stephen King season from Oxford Road’s Dancehouse in early 2015. Beginning 10 February, a host of Stephen King films will be shown at the old theatre. The line-up consists of: A Good Marriage, Carrie, Salem’s Lot, Creepshow and …

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The Cutting Room: The Woman in Black: Angel of Death & Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead

Dead Snow 2

The Woman in Black : Angel of Death Forty years on from the events that saw Arthur Kipps arriving at the Eel Marsh House, school teachers Eve Parkins and Jean Hogg lead a group of evacuee children from war torn London to take up residence in the mysterious old house. It is not long before …

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