Category: Features

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

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

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

Gamut Online Fiction Magazine

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 …

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Look Out For… The Complete Double Dead by Chuck Wendig and Interior Darkness: Selected Stories by Peter Straub

Look Out For… The Complete Double Dead by Chuck Wendig “Double Dead and its sequel are irreverent, gory, and very humorous.” A vampire in zombieland. You wouldn’t like Coburn. People don’t, as a rule. And that’s okay, because he doesn’t like people much either. People are food. Five years ago, Coburn went to sleep–wasn’t exactly …

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