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Board Game Review: City of Horror

January 28, 2014
6 mins to read

“A tense yet enjoyable game!” City of Horror is a survival-themed board game for three to six players, in the style of classic zombie apocalypse movies. The city is beset by a shambling horde of flesh-craving zombies and the players’ goal is to survive the onslaught until help arrives at daybreak. To do so, players …

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The Weird World of Bill Alexander

January 24, 2014
13 mins to read

There is a lot of talk amongst the Horrorati at the moment about Quiet Horror. A sub-genre that seems to mainly concern itself with timid vampires and shy werewolves whose worst crimes would appear to be dropping a thigh bone in the school library or letting one rip during the two minute silence on Remembrance …

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TIH 014: Simon Kurt Unsworth on Moving From A Small Press To Large Publishing House

January 23, 2014
2 mins to read

In this podcast Dan Howarth interviews Simon Kurt Unsworth, the author of Quiet Houses and the forthcoming horror novel The Sorrowful. Simon talks about writing, the editorial process, literary agents, small and large presses, film adaptations and his career to-date. Topics [01:25] Simon Kurt Unsworth’s back catalogue [04:46] The Sorrowful [08:45] Having a literary agent’s input [13:10] Moving …

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Meet The Writer Interview: Dean M Drinkel

January 22, 2014
7 mins to read

Dean M Drinkel is a published writer and editor who compiled and edited the short story anthologies Phobophobia and Demonologica Biblica. He is also a poet, theatre writer and director and an award winning horror filmmaker. He lives in London and has recently published The Bestiarum Vocabulum, a follow-up to Demonologica Biblica, through Western Legends …