Category: Features

Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen and The Ghost Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

March 1, 2016
5 mins to read

Look Out For… The Cosy Room and Other Stories by Arthur Machen “Machen wrote works where the supernatural was as much spiritual as scary, in doing so producing a wholly distinctive body of work.” The Cosy Room and Other Stories is a collection of Arthur Machen’s short stories curated by John Gawsworth (aka Fytton Armstrong) …

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Voluntarily Committed: My Stay in a Haunted Asylum – Part Three

February 29, 2016
8 mins to read

Day Two A day in a dusty Asylum is much better when started with a shower. Even though I used the other shower this time, in a completely different room, I still had that uneasy feeling of company when no one else was there. It was a very quick shower. Croissants again for brekkie and …

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The Cutting Room – Darling

February 25, 2016
2 mins to read

Darling follows a lonely young woman who moves into an old, mysterious Manhattan mansion. Hired as caretaker, it’s not long before she discovers the estate’s haunted reputation and troubling past—stories that slowly transform into a backdrop for her twisted and violent descent into madness. Why we’re looking forward to this: There’s something about black and …

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Starting an Online Magazine: Most Overlooked Costs

February 24, 2016
6 mins to read

If you’re a regular listener to the This Is Horror Podcast you’ll know that Richard Thomas is currently twenty-four days into his Kickstarter for new dark fiction magazine, Gamut. But launching an online magazine isn’t as simple as it may sound. In fact there are a multitude of mistakes and overlooked costs. With that said it’s …