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December 8, 2014
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This is Horror has teamed up with the makers of brand new film The Pyramid, to bring you an exciting competition. The Pyramid is directed by Grégory Levasseur and stars Inbetweeners actor James Buckley. The film centres around a team of US archaeologists who discover an unusual pyramid in the Egyptian desert and the horrors that …
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December 5, 2014
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Albion Fay available for pre-order Spectral Press have announced the release of Albion Fay written by author Mark Morris, with a foreword by Adam Nevill. The story tells of the disturbing happenings that take place during one summer at a peaceful and isolated holiday house. Morris previous works include writing four books for the popular …
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December 1, 2014
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To celebrate the release of David Moody’s new novel Strangers from Infected Books, we have a signed copy of the paperback version to give away to one lucky reader. As ever, all you have to do to have a chance of winning is send your answer to the question below along with your name and address to …
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November 28, 2014
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McConaughey to take The Stand? Matthew McConaughey is rumoured to be playing the role of antagonist, Randall Flagg, in Josh Boone’s adaptation of The Stand, by Stephen King. After much speculation it seems that Matthew McConaughey is tipped to embody the villain for the epic four-part saga, backed by Warner Bros. In recent years, Oscar-winner …
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November 21, 2014
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Wayne Simmons gets Infected Infected Books have announced that author Wayne Simmons is the newest arrival to their team. As IB intend on expanding their domain in the near future, Wayne’s role of marketing and promotion of the IB catalogue couldn’t be more relevant. Simmons has been published by IB before, and is known for his …
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November 14, 2014
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A Head Full of Ghosts Tor have released the cover art for Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts, along with a short excerpt from the novel, which is due to be published by HarperCollins in June 2015. The story follows the Barrett family, who go to extraordinary lengths to prevent their teenage daughter, Marjorie, …
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November 11, 2014
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Look Out For… Wakening the Crow by Stephen Gregory ‘Themes and ideas linger long in the mind.’ Oliver Gooch comes across a tooth, in a velvet box, with a handwritten note from 1888 to say it’s a tooth from the boy Edgar Allan Poe. He displays it in his new bookshop, and names the store …
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November 7, 2014
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A clue from The Devil’s Detective Three weeks ago This Is Horror announced the upcoming release of Simon Kurt Unsworth’s debut novel The Devil’s Detective, in which the plot follows information man, Thomas Fool, on a mission through the belly of the underworld. Now, you can sample it for yourself before general release in Spring next …
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November 1, 2014
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“The tension and fear is built up with small details, each innocent in itself but together evoking a sense of forces beyond the character’s control.” With her new novella, In The Light, S.P. Miskowski’s brings to a close her Skillute Cycle, one of the most interesting and compelling series of horror stories in recent years. …
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October 31, 2014
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This week on Look Out For, we caught up with Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Elvis Room, who was kind enough to offer us his opinion on two of the books he is looking forward to in the coming months. Stephen Graham Jones has written fifteen novels, five collections, two novellas, and about two hundred stories …
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