Category: Features

Tales from The Word Mine: What Do We Tell the Children?

  • June 10, 2015

  • 4 mins to read

Stories for children have been very much on my mind of late, especially as I’ve been trying to introduce our eldest daughter – Maia, 4 years old – to more complex works of children’s literature. She was very happy to sit through readings of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, probably because she’s already seen the …

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Look Out For… Finders Keepers by Stephen King and A Headful Of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

  • June 9, 2015

  • 6 mins to read

Look Out For… … Finders Keepers by Stephen King “A taut and masterful thriller.” ‘Wake up, genius.’ So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, a Salinger-like icon who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not …

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5 Must Read Horror Articles 8 June 2015

  • June 8, 2015

  • 3 mins to read

Welcome to Must Read Horror. The internet has been scoured once again for the week’s best horror articles, and the results are in: Tanith Lee – A Brief Retrospective Is Jaws the Greatest Horror Movie of All Time? Why So Sequel? The Endless Nightmare of Horror Franchises Why Horror TV Succeeds, And The Difficulty Of …

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Look Out For… Through A Mirror, Darkly by Kevin Lucia and Perdido: A Fragment by Peter Straub

  • June 2, 2015

  • 5 mins to read

Look Out For… Through A Mirror, Darkly by Kevin Lucia “Suggestive and allusive, Through A Mirror, Darkly deserves a place on any discerning horror reader’s shelves.” Arcane Delights. Clifton Heights’ premier rare and used bookstore. In it, new owner Kevin Ellison has inherited far more than a family legacy, for inside are tales that will …

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