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July 5, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Dark Travellings by Ian Whates “These stories combine suspenseful plotting with an astute eye for both character and setting.” Showcasing the darker side of the author’s imagination, Dark Travellings takes us from a post-apocalyptic future where music offers mankind its only hope to a quiet country lane where an apparently chance encounter …
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June 28, 2016
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3 mins to read
Look Out For… Nightjar Press Chapbooks “Nightjar Press publish chapbooks of individual short stories which are beautifully told, and which unnerve with accumulating, unnerving detail.” Nightjar Press is an independent publisher specialising in limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. It is brought to you by the people behind early 1990s British Fantasy Award-winning …
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June 21, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… After The Fog Clears by Lee Thompson “Thompson combines the breakneck pace of the best thrillers with the dark atmospherics of horror, with the result being distinctively his own.” When a policeman accidentally runs over a young boy on a fog-shrouded street in Saginaw, Michigan, it thrusts three families into a head-on …
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June 14, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Singing With All My Skin and Bone by Sunny Moraine “These are no mere fictions but incantations of something both unnerving and beautiful.” Come, my love, and I’ll tell you a tale. Tell me about the times before the fires. Sit down beside me in the dust and tell me stories of …
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June 7, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Secret Language by Neil Williamson “Williamson’s work is always taut, dark and powerful.” Secret Language is Neil Williamson’s first collection in ten years, but it has been worth the wait. A regular contributor to magazines such as Interzone and Black Static, Williamson’s short fiction has gained plaudits from critics and readers alike. …
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May 31, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… Maps Of The Lost “The stories on Maps Of The Lost are curiously matter of fact in tone and all insidiously creepy.” These are the maps to the lost places and the secret histories. Be cautious, though. If you follow them, you may become lost yourself. If you enjoy the knowledge and …
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May 24, 2016
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Look Out For… Earth-Bound & Other Supernatural Tales by Dorothy Macardle “Earth-Bound & Other Supernatural Tales is an intriguing, interesting and timely reissue.” Originally published in 1924, the nine tales that comprise Earth-Bound were written by Dorothy Macardle while she was held a political prisoner in Dublin’s Kilmainham Gaol and Mountjoy Prison. The stories incorporate …
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May 17, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… The Fireman by Joe Hill “An imaginative, sprawling, muscular beast of a novel.” Nobody knew where the virus came from. FOX News said it had been set loose by ISIS, using spores that had been invented by the Russians in the 1980s. MSNBC said sources indicated it might’ve been created by engineers at …
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May 10, 2016
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5 mins to read
Look Out For… … Bodies Of Water by V.H. Leslie “V.H. Leslie is one of the most talented writers the genre has.” After ministering to fallen women in Victorian London, Evelyn has suffered a nervous breakdown and finds herself treated by the Water Doctors in the imposing Wakewater House, a hydropathy sanatorium. Years later, Wakewater …
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May 3, 2016
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Look Out For … A Time Of Torment by John Connolly “Connolly balances both human and supernatural horrors with aplomb.” Jerome Burnel was once a hero. He intervened to prevent multiple killings and in doing so damned himself. His life was torn apart. He was imprisoned, brutalized. But in his final days, with the hunters circling, …
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