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Review: Let the Old Dreams Die by John Ajvide Lindqvist

October 2, 2012
1 min to read

Since the mid-1990s, Scandinavian fiction has enjoyed an unprecedented upsurge in popularity. Writers like Jo Nesbø and Camilla Läckberg have ridden the so-called Nordic Noir crimewave in the wake of Henning Mankell’s ‘Wallander’ novels and Stieg Larsson’s extraordinary ‘Millennium’ trilogy, gathering huge international sales, critical acclaim and large budget film adaptations. TV series like Wallander, …

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Review: What gets left behind by Mark West

September 26, 2012
1 min to read

Mike Bergen is a married man from Barnstaple, where he happily lives with his wife and son. The story opens in Gaffney, where Mike is attending a work-related conference. Gaffney, however, is also the place where a terrible occurrence took the life of his best friend almost thirty years ago. Desperate to lay to rest …

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Review: Fever by Wayne Simmons

September 23, 2012
1 min to read

Over the past four years Wayne Simmons has fast cemented his reputation as one of the authoritative voices in apocalyptic fiction with a penchant for zombies. Fever, Simmons’ follow-up to his breakout novel Flu, continues this trend with an unrelenting zombie novel where no character is neither safe nor indispensable. And that is part of …

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Pre-order Thin Men with Yellow Faces by Gary McMahon and Simon Bestwick

September 4, 2012
3 mins to read

We are incredibly proud to announce that the second in the This Is Horror Premium Chapbook series is now available to pre-order. Landing on September 22 with a special launch event in Manchester, Thin Men with Yellow Faces promises to scare, challenge and entertain you, but please do not take our words for it see …