Category: Features

My First Thriller – Tim Lebbon on The Hunt

August 7, 2015
7 mins to read

I’m a debut writer again. This is very exciting, because for almost twenty years I’ve been trying to become an overnight success! And now I have another chance. That’s flippant, but there’s also a serious point behind it. Writers often appear on the scene, as if from out of nowhere, and their novel hits hard …

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The Cutting Room: Goodnight Mommy

August 6, 2015
2 mins to read

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is. Why we’re looking forward …

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

August 6, 2015
10 mins to read

The lovely yet haunted Mayday Hills Asylum in Beechworth, Australia, looms over the township like a vulture, waiting for someone to die. In days past, it never had long to wait. Once a centre of misery and death, it now hosts businesses and contributes to the township’s tourism attraction. One of the events situated within …

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Tattered Tomes: If You Could See Me Now by Peter Straub

August 3, 2015
11 mins to read

Evil is what we call the force we can discover when we send our minds as far as they can go: when the mind crumbles before something bigger, harder than itself, unknowable and hostile. –If You Could See Me Now, page 285. Infatuated with his cousin Alison Greening, Miles Teagarden jumps at the chance to …