ThisIsHorror

Author's posts

5 Must Read Horror Articles 17 June 2013

June 17, 2013
4 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror, the place to find the best horror articles of the week. Once again we’ve searched the internet for interesting and notable articles for your reading pleasure. This week: Through a Fractured Lens: German Expressionism Mood Lighting: Five Films to Prime You for The Purge Six Abandoned Asylums With Genuinely Chilling …

1 comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/5-read-horror-articles-17-june-2013/

Black Static and its importance to women horror writers

June 17, 2013
1 min to read

The first copy of The Third Alternative (as it then was) that I ever bought was Issue 19, Spring 1999. I was in the Oxford Circus branch of Borders (now sadly defunct), looking for magazines of new horror fiction, not knowing if such a thing even existed. Keep on reading…

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/black-static-importance-women-horror-writers/

Black Sabbath (1963)

June 17, 2013
1 min to read

One of the most praised and appreciated of all anthology horror films, Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath (I Tre Volti Della Paura in its native Italy) came about partly because of the huge success of AIP’s Tales of Terror (1960), which presented three short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by Roger Corman. Sidney Salkow’s Twice …

Leave comment

Permanent link to this article: https://www.thisishorror.co.uk/black-sabbath-1963/

David Moody VS Wayne Simmons, 29 June

June 15, 2013
3 mins to read

Coming to Esquire’s Coffee Bar, in association with Waterstone’s Coventry, This Is Horror present their most intense event yet. Kicking off at 7pm on 29 June, Wayne Simmons and David Moody invite you to an evening of readings, conversation, jokes (if your humour’s particularly dark) and an intimate insight into the life of the horror …