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Flash Fear: Slow Drowning by David Tallerman

  • May 22, 2012

  • 1 min to read

Today we have a bit of a treat for you. A collaboration between artist and Spectral Press publisher, Simon Marshall-Jones and the winner of the This Is Horror/Spectral Press Chapbook competition David Tallerman. Enjoy our latest flash fiction. Slow Drowning by David Tallerman

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Review: The Wicker Tree

  • May 22, 2012

  • 1 min to read

Let’s get one thing out of the way right at the start of this review: The Wicker Man is a classic British horror film, one which gradually acquired its reputation after initially going out on the lower half of a double bill at UK cinemas in 1973 (with Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now) and then …

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Review: Osombie

  • May 21, 2012

  • 1 min to read

Oh dear! Oh no! Osombie! This film was reviewed in the very slight hope that it might turn out to be a comedy, or possibly even a musical (the lyrics above might have done for the big finale, don’t you think?). Osombie

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The importance of comic book covers (and the paradox of clichés)

  • May 21, 2012

  • 1 min to read

Jasper Bark explains just why comic book covers may be both the most important and best covers of all. The importance of comic book covers

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