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News Round-up Week Ending 5 October

  • October 8, 2012

  • 2 mins to read
Autumn: Horror in the East

Autumn: Horror in the East t-shirts The new horror convention, hitting Lowestoft this November, Autumn: Horror in the East have just announced the pre-order of official Autumn t-shirts. T-shirts will also be available on the day at what promises to be Lowestoft’s premiere horror convention. Shady Palms Allen Dusk, award-winning dark fiction and poetry author, …

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Review: Attack of the Werewolves

  • October 8, 2012

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Attack of the Werewolves

Coming out in the UK under a slightly better title than the US Game of Werewolves, Juan Martinez Moreno’s Lobos de Arga is a Spanish comedy horror film set in the remote village of Arga. As we discover in the opening credits the village is currently labouring under a terrible curse that is the result …

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A short history of Australian horror

  • October 5, 2012

  • 1 min to read

Australian horror These two words have different connotations for many people worldwide. Australian horror has exploited fears of Australia’s ‘wide-open spaces’, and the isolation and vulnerability of people where the population drops to less than fifty individuals per square kilometre. Wolf Creek and Snowtown are based on real-life crimes such as Ivan Milat’s ‘backpacker murders’, …

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Joseph D’Lacey launches Blood Fugue in London with Pat Cadigan, Jonathan Green and Jasper Bark

  • October 5, 2012

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Blood Fugue by Joseph D'Lacey

The next This Is Horror event will take place at Blackwell’s Charing Cross, London branch on Friday November 16, 2012. Kicking off promptly at 6pm and running through until 8pm, the evening celebrates the launch of Joseph D’Lacey’s forthcoming, Blood Fugue. The event features readings from Arthur C. Clarke award-winner, Pat Cadigan, the creator of …

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