Category: Features

Tattered Tomes: Revisiting The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub

January 2, 2018
9 mins to read

It was the biggest horror fiction collaboration ever. A venture so huge the publishers spent half a million (which was quite a lot for a release in 1984) promoting the book. Two horror writers, the best of the best at the top of their game, writing together for the first time. They were thinking bestseller …

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Look Out For … Cry Your Way Home by Damien Angelica Walters

December 28, 2017
2 mins to read

“One of the strongest voices in contemporary horror and weird fiction, Damien Angelica Walters has shifted from new kid on the block to established writer of the first degree in a short span of time. “ Once upon a time there was a monster. This is how they tell you the story starts. This is …

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Searchlight: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

December 26, 2017
4 mins to read

As much as you hear the mantra to ‘read as widely as possible’, the concept applies to non-fiction as well. Inspiration comes where you find it, often in places we least expect it. Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood may not be the first place you look …

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Portugal’s Most Terrifying and Haunted Places: Quinta das Lágrimas

December 21, 2017
4 mins to read

Quinta das Lágrimas (the palace of tears) is a huge royal palace, now functioning as a five-star spa hotel, but peel back the skin and you will discover something altogether darker. Located on the edge of the city of Coimbra and likely built sometime in the 13th century, the palace played host to a number …